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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?
(a) She asks everyone to leave.
(b) She says she feels sick.
(c) She takes off her hospital gown.
(d) She cries.

2. What does Zikora call her father's second wife?
(a) Mama Nwanneka.
(b) Aunty Uzo.
(c) Aunty Nwanneka.
(d) Mama Uzo.

3. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A gala.
(c) A book launch.
(d) A friend's party.

4. 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 hugged her.
(b) She told her she should live with them.
(c) She said she understood and apologized.
(d) She slapped her.

5. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?
(a) She does not need an epidural.
(b) Anything to help my child.
(c) My pleasure.
(d) She can manage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?

2. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?

3. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?

4. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?

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

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