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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. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?
(a) She feels something is wrong.
(b) She feels she is being blamed.
(c) She feels soothed.
(d) She feels confused.

2. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

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

4. What does Zikora brag to her cousin Mmiliaku when talking of her relationship with Kwame?
(a) She brags of their world travels.
(b) She brags of how much money he makes.
(c) She says it is an example of why one should not settle.
(d) She says they are a better couple than Mmiliaku and her husband.

5. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?
(a) He does not dress well.
(b) He is not wealthy.
(c) He is rude.
(d) He is not arrogant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?

2. What is the name of Zikora's brother from her father's second wife?

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

4. What does Zikora call her father's second wife?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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