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

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

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

4. What did Zikora's mother do after Zikora accepted food at Aunty Nwanneka's house when they went to visit her new baby?
(a) She told her she should live with them.
(b) She hugged her.
(c) She slapped her.
(d) She said she understood and apologized.

5. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?
(a) She feels it sets him apart from men like Emmanuel.
(b) She feels Kwame should have a talk with Emmanuel.
(c) She worries Kwame is only pretending to disapprove.
(d) She feels offended because Mmiliaku is her cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?

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

3. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with 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. What do the nurses continually tell Zikora at the beginning of the story, which she feels they are blaming Zikora for?

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

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

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

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

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