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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 she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(d) Because the father is not there.

2. 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 does not need an epidural.
(c) She can manage.
(d) My pleasure.

3. What distant family member does the narrator think of who died during childbirth?
(a) Mmiliaku.
(b) Nwanneka.
(c) Ugonna.
(d) Chinyere.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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