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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
(a) Canada.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) New Zealand.

3. What does Zikora call her father's second wife?
(a) Aunty Uzo.
(b) Aunty Nwanneka.
(c) Mama Uzo.
(d) Mama Nwanneka.

4. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Her mother's home.
(c) Her apartment.
(d) The lawfirm.

5. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?
(a) Icy.
(b) Disappointed.
(c) Warm.
(d) Humorous.

6. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?
(a) She can manage.
(b) Anything to help my child.
(c) She does not need an epidural.
(d) My pleasure.

7. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) Because the father is not there.
(b) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
(c) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(d) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.

8. What distant family member does the narrator think of who died during childbirth?
(a) Nwanneka.
(b) Chinyere.
(c) Mmiliaku.
(d) Ugonna.

9. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?
(a) Kinah.
(b) Ugonna.
(c) Kwame.
(d) Kali.

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

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

12. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?
(a) Ugochi.
(b) Uchenna.
(c) Udama.
(d) Ugonna.

13. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
(a) He is not wealthy.
(b) He does not dress well.
(c) He is not arrogant.
(d) He is rude.

14. What about the smaller nurse bothers Zikora to the point that she decides she will write a complaint after?
(a) Her cellphone use.
(b) Her rude demeanor.
(c) Her long fingernails.
(d) Her fake eyelashes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zikora's mother say when her husband's second wife offered them fish and plantains when they came to visit the new baby?

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

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

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

5. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?

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