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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 talks her through the pain.
(b) She is gentle.
(c) She cannot bear to see her in pain and leaves the room.
(d) She is unmoved.

2. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?
(a) Her baby.
(b) A drink of water.
(c) An epidural.
(d) Her gown.

3. 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) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(d) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.

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

5. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?
(a) She feels Kwame should have a talk with Emmanuel.
(b) She feels offended because Mmiliaku is her cousin.
(c) She worries Kwame is only pretending to disapprove.
(d) She feels it sets him apart from men like Emmanuel.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was Zikora when her father married a 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. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?

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