View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 brags of their world travels.
(c) She says they are a better couple than Mmiliaku and her husband.
(d) She brags of how much money he makes.

3. 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 gown.
(b) An epidural.
(c) Her baby.
(d) A drink of water.

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

5. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?
(a) A book launch.
(b) A gala.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A friend's party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 332 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample