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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 10 - 24 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zikora want to prove will not get in the way of her work at the law firm?
(a) Her relationship with Kwame.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Pregnancy and parenthood.

2. What friend of Mmiliaku's writes a blog which Mmiliaku recommends to Zikora?
(a) Kwame.
(b) Ammara.
(c) Malika.
(d) Amaka.

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

4. What does Zikora say is not Kwame's "fighting tool" (13)?
(a) Condescension.
(b) Silence.
(c) Cheating.
(d) Cruelty.

5. How does Zikora send money to Mmiliaku after she calls her from Nitel?
(a) Western Union.
(b) Paypal.
(c) Venmo.
(d) She mailed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. While nursing the baby after having him circumcised, what does Zikora do and why?

2. What does Mmiliaku tell Zikora when she expresses her confusion at Kwame's surprise that she is pregnant?

3. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?

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

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

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