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

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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