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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the 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?

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