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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 worry might happen to her while she uses her sitz bath after her son's birth?
(a) She might not go back to work.
(b) She might die.
(c) She might be a bad mother.
(d) She might get an infection.

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

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

4. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?
(a) She takes off her hospital gown.
(b) She says she feels sick.
(c) She cries.
(d) She asks everyone to leave.

5. What do Zikora and her mother disagree about after the baby is born?
(a) Whether or not to circumcise him.
(b) Whether he should be baptized.
(c) What to name him.
(d) Whether to tell Kwame or not.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Zikora's mother call to come to the apartment when they first come home from the hospital?

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

4. How does Zikora send money to Mmiliaku after she calls her from Nitel?

5. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?

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