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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Gifty took poetry rather than what class to fulfill her humanities requirement?
2. How old was Gifty’s mother when she met her father?
3. What does Gifty tell her dates she gets mice hooked on?
4. After Mr. Thomas funeral, Gifty’s mother made her father pull the car over so she could do what after hearing someone speak ill of the dead?
5. What basketball game were Gifty and Nana playing when he told her he did not care what his father thought?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 24?
2. In Chapter 2, who calls Gifty from Alabama and what does he tell her about her mother?
3. Gifty said her mother noticed America changed around Big Black men. How did Gifty’s mother say her father’s behavior changed in response?
4. How old was Gifty when she went to Ghana to stay with her aunt and why did she go?
5. What did Gifty’s childhood nickname, asaa, mean?
6. How does Gifty’s mother describe the Chin Chin man?
7. What events made Gifty feel that a “particular kind of shame had descended on [her] congregation” (131)?
8. In Chapter 25, when Gifty begins reading the Bible since her mother will not touch it, what does she notice that she did not notice as a child?
9. What does Gifty’s mother ask in Chapter 6 after she finally eats her koko, and how does Gifty respond?
10. Describe the “intervention” (131) the church had on the young woman of the congregation.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the end, Gifty is with Han, running a lab in Princeton, and living close enough to a church that she can hear Church bells on Sunday. What does this ending represent about the progression of Gifty’s character?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Gifty’s relationship to her mother and how it changed over time.
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 19 describes a moment when Gifty begins thinking more deeply about faith. Describe Pastor Tom (P.T.) and his part in this moment for Gifty.
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