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

2. What does the doctor know about Zikora's mother which makes her wonder when she would have told him?
(a) That she left her family to bring Zikora to America.
(b) That she had a hysterectomy.
(c) That her husband took a second wife.
(d) That she owns two private schools in Nigeria.

3. What does Zikora sometimes do on the weekends, which Mmiliaku advises her to stop doing?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Working.
(c) Read Kwame's old texts.
(d) Go on dates.

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

5. What is Zikora's law school presentation about for which she discusses her mother's life?
(a) Divorce rates in Nigeria.
(b) Hysterectomies among African women.
(c) Private schools in Nigeria.
(d) Igbo property laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Zikora's father and Aunty Nwanneka deliberately avoid asking Zikora about after the baby is born?

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

4. What does Zikora's son struggle with when they first get home from the hospital?

5. How do Zikora and Mmiliaku communicate most often?

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