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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 her mother who the father is.
(c) Because the father is not there.
(d) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.

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

3. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
(a) Canada.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Australia.
(d) America.

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

5. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?
(a) Uchenna.
(b) Ugochi.
(c) Udama.
(d) Ugonna.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?

2. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?

3. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?

4. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?

5. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?

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