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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 has been having an affair.
(d) She thinks she might be pregnant.

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Zikora was nine and went to see Aunty Nwanneka's new son, Ugonna?

2. How does Zikora interact with Dr. K when he first appears in the story and she tells him something must be wrong?

3. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the labor room?

4. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with her?

5. What do the nurses continually tell Zikora at the beginning of the story, which she feels they are blaming Zikora for?

6. What is the dynamic between mother and daughter at the beginning of "Zikora: A Short Story"?

7. Who does Zikora think of when she becomes so tired she feels like she could die right there, and what happened to this person?

8. What does Zikora feel toward the nurse after she raises her eyebrows when Zikora's mother refuses to help keep her still for the epidural?

9. Why does Kwame's reaction to Zikora's pregnancy surprise her?

10. In what ways did Kwame seem different than most successful, Black men Zikora knew?

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