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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 brother from her father's second wife?
(a) Uchenna.
(b) Ugonna.
(c) Ugochi.
(d) Udama.
2. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?
(a) She cannot bear to see her in pain and leaves the room.
(b) She is gentle.
(c) She is unmoved.
(d) She talks her through the pain.
3. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
(a) He does not dress well.
(b) He is rude.
(c) He is not wealthy.
(d) He is not arrogant.
4. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Icy.
(c) Warm.
(d) Disappointed.
5. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?
(a) West Memorial.
(b) St. Anne's.
(c) St. Luke's.
(d) East Memorial.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
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. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?
5. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Zikora's cousin Mmiliaku's husband Emmanuel described?
2. What do the nurses continually tell Zikora at the beginning of the story, which she feels they are blaming Zikora for?
3. What is the dynamic between mother and daughter at the beginning of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
4. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with her?
5. Why does Kwame's reaction to Zikora's pregnancy surprise her?
6. In what ways did Kwame seem different than most successful, Black men Zikora knew?
7. Who does Zikora think of when she becomes so tired she feels like she could die right there, and what happened to this person?
8. What happened when Zikora was nine and went to see Aunty Nwanneka's new son, Ugonna?
9. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the labor room?
10. 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?
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