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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Zikora's mother ask of her on the day of the event at Aunty Nwanneka's house?
(a) She asks her to be polite.
(b) She asks her to get her father to come home.
(c) She asks her not to go.
(d) She asks her to bring a gift.

3. What about the smaller nurse bothers Zikora to the point that she decides she will write a complaint after?
(a) Her long fingernails.
(b) Her cellphone use.
(c) Her fake eyelashes.
(d) Her rude demeanor.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora consider telling Kwame if she were to call him after she has been home with the baby for a few days?

2. What does Zikora's mother tell her in regards to her father taking a second wife as if it is a victory?

3. What does Zikora avoid eating when she first finds out she is pregnant?

4. Why does Zikora's father decide to take a second wife?

5. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?

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