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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 child's father?
(a) Kinah.
(b) Kwame.
(c) Ugonna.
(d) Kali.
2. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?
(a) Warm.
(b) Disappointed.
(c) Icy.
(d) Humorous.
3. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?
(a) Ugonna.
(b) Udama.
(c) Uchenna.
(d) Ugochi.
4. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Her mother's home.
(c) The lawfirm.
(d) Her apartment.
5. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) Because the father is not there.
(b) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(c) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
(d) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?
2. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?
3. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?
4. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
5. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Zikora's cousin Mmiliaku's husband Emmanuel described?
2. Who does Zikora think of when she becomes so tired she feels like she could die right there, and what happened to this person?
3. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with her?
4. Why does Kwame's reaction to Zikora's pregnancy surprise her?
5. What is the dynamic between mother and daughter at the beginning of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
6. How does Zikora interact with Dr. K when he first appears in the story and she tells him something must be wrong?
7. In what ways did Kwame seem different than most successful, Black men Zikora knew?
8. 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?
9. What do the nurses continually tell Zikora at the beginning of the story, which she feels they are blaming Zikora for?
10. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the labor room?
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