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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 Aunty Nwanneka tell Zikora after her son's birth?
(a) God has blessed them.
(b) She should have had the father there.
(c) She cannot wait to meet him in person.
(d) She is lucky she had a boy.

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

3. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?
(a) West Memorial.
(b) St. Anne's.
(c) East Memorial.
(d) St. Luke's.

4. What confession does Zikora make to her mother, which her mother says is better left unsaid?
(a) She confesses that she does not love her.
(b) She confesses that Kwame does not love her.
(c) She confesses that she does not want the child.
(d) She confesses that she has had an abortion.

5. How old is Zikora when her mother tells her that her father will take a second wife?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kwame respond to Zikora's text telling him how far along she is?

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

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

4. What is Zikora's law school presentation about for which she discusses her mother's life?

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

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