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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What does Zikora call her father's second wife?

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

4. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?

5. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?

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