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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 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.

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

3. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?
(a) She has been having an affair.
(b) She does not love him anymore.
(c) She is moving back to Africa.
(d) She thinks she might be pregnant.

4. 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.

5. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Tasty.
(c) Nutty.
(d) Fancy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?

3. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?

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

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

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