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

2. 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 Kwame should have a talk with Emmanuel.
(c) She feels it sets him apart from men like Emmanuel.
(d) She feels offended because Mmiliaku is her cousin.

3. 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 gown.
(b) An epidural.
(c) A drink of water.
(d) Her baby.

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

5. 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 her mother who the father is.
(c) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(d) Because the father is not there.

6. 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.

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

8. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

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

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

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

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

13. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?
(a) She talks her through the pain.
(b) She is gentle.
(c) She cannot bear to see her in pain and leaves the room.
(d) She is unmoved.

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

15. 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 long fingernails.
(c) Her rude demeanor.
(d) Her cellphone use.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?

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

3. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?

4. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story"?

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

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