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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 call her father's second wife?
(a) Aunty Nwanneka.
(b) Aunty Uzo.
(c) Mama Uzo.
(d) Mama Nwanneka.
2. 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 says it is an example of why one should not settle.
(c) She brags of their world travels.
(d) She brags of how much money he makes.
3. 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 ignored the offered.
(b) She said she would never eat food in their house.
(c) She said they already ate.
(d) She said she hates fish.
4. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
(a) Fancy.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Tasty.
(d) Nutty.
5. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
(a) He is rude.
(b) He is not wealthy.
(c) He does not dress well.
(d) He is not arrogant.
Short Answer Questions
1. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
2. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?
3. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?
4. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?
5. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the labor room?
3. What do the nurses continually tell Zikora at the beginning of the story, which she feels they are blaming Zikora for?
4. How is Zikora's cousin Mmiliaku's husband Emmanuel described?
5. What is the dynamic between mother and daughter at the beginning of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
6. Who does Zikora think of when she becomes so tired she feels like she could die right there, and what happened to this person?
7. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with her?
8. In what ways did Kwame seem different than most successful, Black men Zikora knew?
9. How does Zikora interact with Dr. K when he first appears in the story and she tells him something must be wrong?
10. What happened when Zikora was nine and went to see Aunty Nwanneka's new son, Ugonna?
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