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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 describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?
(a) Icy.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Warm.

2. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?
(a) West Memorial.
(b) St. Luke's.
(c) St. Anne's.
(d) East Memorial.

3. 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 rude demeanor.
(c) Her fake eyelashes.
(d) Her long fingernails.

4. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?
(a) Anything to help my child.
(b) She can manage.
(c) My pleasure.
(d) She does not need an epidural.

5. 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 she would never eat food in their house.
(b) She said she hates fish.
(c) She ignored the offered.
(d) She said they already ate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story"?

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

3. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?

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

5. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?

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