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

2. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
(a) He is rude.
(b) He is not arrogant.
(c) He does not dress well.
(d) He is not wealthy.

3. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Tasty.
(c) Fancy.
(d) Nutty.

4. What friend of Mmiliaku's writes a blog which Mmiliaku recommends to Zikora?
(a) Ammara.
(b) Kwame.
(c) Amaka.
(d) Malika.

5. How old is Zikora when her mother tells her that her father will take a second wife?
(a) 8.
(b) 19.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who rushes to the baby when he cries at the very end of "Zikora: A Short Story"?

5. What does Zikora's mother say to her father the day he moves out?

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