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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 does Mmiliaku's friend do on her blog?
(a) She interviews men anonymously.
(b) She writes about homeschooling.
(c) She writes about being single in a big city.
(d) She shares her favorite recipes.

2. What realization about her son does Zikora have which she shares with her mother?
(a) She realizes he looks like Kwame.
(b) She realizes she would die for him.
(c) She realizes he looks like her mother.
(d) She realizes he is not nursing well.

3. What does Zikora go to Planned Parenthood for when she is 19?
(a) An abortion.
(b) An STD test.
(c) An annual exam.
(d) Birth control pills.

4. What does Zikora sometimes do on the weekends, which Mmiliaku advises her to stop doing?
(a) Read Kwame's old texts.
(b) Go on dates.
(c) Working.
(d) Exercise.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?

3. How do Zikora and Mmiliaku communicate most often?

4. What distant family member does the narrator think of who died during childbirth?

5. 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?

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