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

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

3. How does Zikora send money to Mmiliaku after she calls her from Nitel?
(a) Venmo.
(b) She mailed it.
(c) Western Union.
(d) Paypal.

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

5. What does the doctor know about Zikora's mother which makes her wonder when she would have told him?
(a) That her husband took a second wife.
(b) That she owns two private schools in Nigeria.
(c) That she had a hysterectomy.
(d) That she left her family to bring Zikora to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zikora go to Planned Parenthood for when she is 19?

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

3. At what event did Zikora first meet her baby's father?

4. How do Zikora and Mmiliaku communicate most often?

5. How old is Mmiliaku's youngest when she calls Zikora from Nitel?

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