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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?
(a) She cannot bear to see her in pain and leaves the room.
(b) She talks her through the pain.
(c) She is unmoved.
(d) She is gentle.

2. How long after her son's birth does Zikora's father call her?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 1 day.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 1 month.

3. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?
(a) An epidural.
(b) Her baby.
(c) A drink of water.
(d) Her gown.

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

5. What does Zikora say about the image of her mother turning away like she did when she came home from Aunty Nwanneka's house?
(a) It is a relief.
(b) It is a recurring image.
(c) It is a repulsive image.
(d) It is a surprise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Zikora and her mother disagree about after the baby is born?

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

3. What does Zikora consider doing so she can call Kwame?

4. What does Zikora's mother say when Zikora says she does not know what she will do when her mother leaves?

5. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?

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