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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 realization about her son does Zikora have which she shares with her mother?
(a) She realizes he is not nursing well.
(b) She realizes he looks like Kwame.
(c) She realizes he looks like her mother.
(d) She realizes she would die for him.

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

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

4. What does the doctor know about Zikora's mother which makes her wonder when she would have told him?
(a) That she left her family to bring Zikora to America.
(b) That she had a hysterectomy.
(c) That her husband took a second wife.
(d) That she owns two private schools in Nigeria.

5. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?
(a) She hugged her.
(b) She told her she should live with them.
(c) She said she understood and apologized.
(d) She slapped her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kwame say to Zikora in regards to her decision to have the baby?

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

3. What does Mmiliaku's friend do on her blog?

4. What distant family member does the narrator think of who died during childbirth?

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

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