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

2. 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) Anything to help my child.
(d) She does not need an epidural.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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