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

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 soothed.
(d) She feels confused.

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

3. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?
(a) Kinah.
(b) Ugonna.
(c) Kali.
(d) 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 cries.
(c) She says she feels sick.
(d) She asks everyone to leave.

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

6. 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 slapped her.
(c) She said she understood and apologized.
(d) She hugged her.

7. 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) My pleasure.
(d) She does not need an epidural.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?

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

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

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

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