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

2. 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 takes off her hospital gown.
(d) She asks everyone to leave.

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

4. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?
(a) She says they are a better couple than Mmiliaku and her husband.
(b) She says it is an example of why one should not settle.
(c) She brags of their world travels.
(d) She brags of how much money he makes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zikora's mother say when her husband's second wife offered them fish and plantains when they came to visit the new baby?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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