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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) Nwanneka.
(b) Chinyere.
(c) Ugonna.
(d) Mmiliaku.

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

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

4. 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 does not dress well.
(d) He is not arrogant.

5. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?
(a) Kinah.
(b) Kali.
(c) Ugonna.
(d) Kwame.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?

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

4. What does the nurse tell the narrator she will get soon when the narrator asks for it at the beginning of the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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