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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. 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 hugged her.
(b) She slapped her.
(c) She said she understood and apologized.
(d) She told her she should live with them.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?

4. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How is Zikora's cousin Mmiliaku's husband Emmanuel described?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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