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

2. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) Her mother's home.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The lawfirm.

3. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
(b) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(c) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(d) Because the father is not there.

4. 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.

5. 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?
(a) She said she hates fish.
(b) She said she would never eat food in their house.
(c) She said they already ate.
(d) She ignored the offered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?

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

3. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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