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

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

3. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A friend's party.
(c) A gala.
(d) A book launch.

4. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?
(a) An epidural.
(b) Her baby.
(c) Her gown.
(d) A drink of water.

5. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?
(a) Udama.
(b) Ugochi.
(c) Uchenna.
(d) Ugonna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?

2. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?

3. What about the smaller nurse bothers Zikora to the point that she decides she will write a complaint after?

4. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?

5. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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