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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 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 brags of how much money he makes.
(c) She says it is an example of why one should not settle.
(d) She brags of their world travels.

2. What about the smaller nurse bothers Zikora to the point that she decides she will write a complaint after?
(a) Her cellphone use.
(b) Her fake eyelashes.
(c) Her long fingernails.
(d) Her rude demeanor.

3. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Canada.

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) A drink of water.
(d) Her gown.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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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