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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?
(a) East Memorial.
(b) St. Luke's.
(c) West Memorial.
(d) St. Anne's.

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

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

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

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) Warm.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Icy.

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

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

8. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(b) Because the father is not there.
(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 country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Canada.

10. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?
(a) She worries Kwame is only pretending to disapprove.
(b) She feels it sets him apart from men like Emmanuel.
(c) She feels Kwame should have a talk with Emmanuel.
(d) She feels offended because Mmiliaku is her cousin.

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

12. 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 slapped her.
(b) She said she understood and apologized.
(c) She hugged her.
(d) She told her she should live with them.

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

14. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?
(a) She says they are a better couple than Mmiliaku and her husband.
(b) She brags of how much money he makes.
(c) She brags of their world travels.
(d) She says it is an example of why one should not settle.

15. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A gala.
(c) A book launch.
(d) A friend's party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?

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

3. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?

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

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

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