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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 10 - 24 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 said she understood and apologized.
(b) She slapped her.
(c) She told her she should live with them.
(d) She hugged her.

2. What do Zikora and her mother disagree about after the baby is born?
(a) Whether to tell Kwame or not.
(b) Whether or not to circumcise him.
(c) What to name him.
(d) Whether he should be baptized.

3. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?
(a) She talks her through the pain.
(b) She cannot bear to see her in pain and leaves the room.
(c) She is unmoved.
(d) She is gentle.

4. What does Zikora say is not Kwame's "fighting tool" (13)?
(a) Cheating.
(b) Condescension.
(c) Silence.
(d) Cruelty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While nursing the baby after having him circumcised, what does Zikora do and why?

3. What does Mmiliaku call Zikora from Nitel to tell her?

4. How many women work in Zikora's law office?

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

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