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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 24 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Zikora say her mother does when she picks up her son at the end of the story?
(a) She swaddles him.
(b) She sings to him.
(c) She inhales him.
(d) She changes his diaper.

3. What does Zikora notice happens to the baby when her mother holds him?
(a) He stops crying.
(b) He cries more.
(c) He giggles.
(d) He falls asleep.

4. What does Zikora's mother say immediately after Zikora gives birth to her son?
(a) She says it is a shame he will not have a father.
(b) She says he looks just like Zikora.
(c) She says he is too small.
(d) She congratulates her and says he is beautiful.

5. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?
(a) She feels confused.
(b) She feels she is being blamed.
(c) She feels something is wrong.
(d) She feels soothed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora's mother say to her father the day he moves out?

2. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?

3. What does Mmiliaku call Zikora from Nitel to tell her?

4. What does Zikora sometimes do on the weekends, which Mmiliaku advises her to stop doing?

5. What does Zikora call her father's second wife?

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