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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 24 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mmiliaku tell Zikora when she expresses her confusion at Kwame's surprise that she is pregnant?
(a) Mmiliaku tells her he is playing dumb.
(b) Mmiliaku tells her men do not understand women's bodies.
(c) Mmiliaku asks Zikora why she expects more from a man.
(d) Mmiliaku tells her all men are evil.

2. Where does Zikora discover many men learn about women's bodies?
(a) Pornography.
(b) Friends.
(c) Their parents.
(d) School.

3. While nursing the baby after having him circumcised, what does Zikora do and why?
(a) She calls Kwame because she misses him.
(b) She nods off because she is exhausted.
(c) She cries and wonders why she had him circumcised.
(d) She eats because she is famished.

4. What does Zikora remember her Aunty Uzo telling her mother after her father married Aunty Nwanneka?
(a) He will always be Zikora's father.
(b) She is senior wife.
(c) He does not love her anymore.
(d) Two wives are better than one.

5. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The lawfirm.
(d) Her mother's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Zikora's father want her to go to university when she is younger?

2. What does Aunty Nwanneka tell Zikora after her son's birth?

3. What does Mmiliaku call Zikora from Nitel to tell her?

4. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?

5. Who does Zikora text after her son is born to say it is a boy?

(see the answer key)

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