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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 2 - 10 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
(a) He is not wealthy.
(b) He is rude.
(c) He does not dress well.
(d) He is not arrogant.

2. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?
(a) She is gentle.
(b) She is unmoved.
(c) She talks her through the pain.
(d) She cannot bear to see her in pain and leaves the room.

3. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?
(a) She says it is an example of why one should not settle.
(b) She brags of how much money he makes.
(c) She says they are a better couple than Mmiliaku and her husband.
(d) She brags of their world travels.

4. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
(b) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(c) Because the father is not there.
(d) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.

5. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?
(a) She slapped her.
(b) She told her she should live with them.
(c) She said she understood and apologized.
(d) She hugged her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?

2. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?

3. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?

4. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?

5. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?

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