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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?
(a) She asks everyone to leave.
(b) She says she feels sick.
(c) She cries.
(d) She takes off her hospital gown.

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) My pleasure.
(d) She can manage.

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

4. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?
(a) She brags of their world travels.
(b) She says it is an example of why one should not settle.
(c) She brags of how much money he makes.
(d) She says they are a better couple than Mmiliaku and her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?

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

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

4. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?

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

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