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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) She said she hates fish.
(b) She said she would never eat food in their house.
(c) She ignored the offered.
(d) She said they already ate.

2. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?
(a) She told her she should live with them.
(b) She hugged her.
(c) She said she understood and apologized.
(d) She slapped her.

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

4. 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 rude.
(d) He is not arrogant.

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

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

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

8. 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 the father she was pregnant.
(c) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
(d) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.

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

10. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Nutty.
(d) Tasty.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?

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

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

4. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?

5. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?

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