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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) Mama Uzo.
(b) Aunty Nwanneka.
(c) Mama Nwanneka.
(d) Aunty Uzo.
2. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
(a) Canada.
(b) Australia.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) America.
3. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?
(a) She feels soothed.
(b) She feels confused.
(c) She feels something is wrong.
(d) She feels she is being blamed.
4. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(b) Because the father is not there.
(c) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(d) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.
5. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Warm.
(c) Icy.
(d) Disappointed.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
2. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?
3. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?
4. What is the name of Zikora's child's father?
5. What distant family member does the narrator think of who died during childbirth?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Kwame's reaction to Zikora's pregnancy surprise her?
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. How does Zikora interact with Dr. K when he first appears in the story and she tells him something must be wrong?
4. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the labor room?
5. 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?
6. How is Zikora's cousin Mmiliaku's husband Emmanuel described?
7. In what ways did Kwame seem different than most successful, Black men Zikora knew?
8. What happened when Zikora was nine and went to see Aunty Nwanneka's new son, Ugonna?
9. What is the dynamic between mother and daughter at the beginning of "Zikora: A Short Story"?
10. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with her?
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