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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 2 - 10 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

3. What did Zikora's mother say when her husband's second wife offered them fish and plantains when they came to visit the new baby?
(a) She said they already ate.
(b) She ignored the offered.
(c) She said she would never eat food in their house.
(d) She said she hates fish.

4. 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.

5. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(b) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(c) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
(d) Because the father is not there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?

2. What distant family member does the narrator think of who died during childbirth?

3. What about the smaller nurse bothers Zikora to the point that she decides she will write a complaint after?

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. What does Zikora call her father's second wife?

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