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

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. How old is Mmiliaku's youngest when she calls Zikora from Nitel?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 16.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 6 weeks.

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 she would die for him.
(c) She realizes he is not nursing well.
(d) She realizes he looks like her mother.

5. Where does Zikora's mother want her to go to university when she is younger?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) The UK.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zikora's father end up moving in with Aunty Nwanneka?

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

3. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?

4. What do Zikora's father and Aunty Nwanneka deliberately avoid asking Zikora about after the baby is born?

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

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