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

2. What does Zikora worry might happen to her while she uses her sitz bath after her son's birth?
(a) She might be a bad mother.
(b) She might not go back to work.
(c) She might die.
(d) She might get an infection.

3. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?
(a) She does not love him anymore.
(b) She is moving back to Africa.
(c) She thinks she might be pregnant.
(d) She has been having an affair.

4. Who does Zikora feel the urge to hide from on they way home from the hospital?
(a) Her mother and son.
(b) Kwame.
(c) The taxi driver.
(d) Her father.

5. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?
(a) She feels she is being blamed.
(b) She feels confused.
(c) She feels soothed.
(d) She feels something is wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora notice happens to the baby when her mother holds him?

2. What does Zikora's mother say when Zikora says she does not know what she will do when her mother leaves?

3. What do Zikora and her mother disagree about after the baby is born?

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

5. Where does Zikora's father call her from to congratulate her on her son's birth?

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