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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mmiliaku tell Zikora when she expresses her confusion at Kwame's surprise that she is pregnant?
(a) Mmiliaku tells her men do not understand women's bodies.
(b) Mmiliaku tells her all men are evil.
(c) Mmiliaku asks Zikora why she expects more from a man.
(d) Mmiliaku tells her he is playing dumb.

4. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?
(a) 8.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

5. What does Zikora sometimes do on the weekends, which Mmiliaku advises her to stop doing?
(a) Read Kwame's old texts.
(b) Working.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Go on dates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora avoid eating when she first finds out she is pregnant?

2. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?

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

4. What realization about her son does Zikora have which she shares with her mother?

5. What confession does Zikora make to her mother, which her mother says is better left unsaid?

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