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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 Zikora's child's father?
(a) Kwame.
(b) Kali.
(c) Kinah.
(d) Ugonna.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Humorous.
(d) Warm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 hugged her.
(d) She said she understood and apologized.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?

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

3. What about the smaller nurse bothers Zikora to the point that she decides she will write a complaint after?

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

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

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