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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 24 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zikora's mother ask of her on the day of the event at Aunty Nwanneka's house?
(a) She asks her to be polite.
(b) She asks her to get her father to come home.
(c) She asks her to bring a gift.
(d) She asks her not to go.

2. Why does Zikora feel she is disgracing her mother in the delivery room?
(a) She feels she is not handling the pain with dignity.
(b) Because the father is not there.
(c) Because she did not tell the father she was pregnant.
(d) Because she did not tell her mother who the father is.

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

4. How does the narrator describe the expression her mother gives her when Zikora asks Dr. K how he would know how childbirth feels?
(a) Warm.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Icy.

5. Why does Zikora's father decide to take a second wife?
(a) Because it is family tradition.
(b) Because he fell in love with someone new.
(c) Because her mother cannot have children.
(d) Because her mother needs help around the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zikora describe the woman she says she will never forget from Planned Parenthood?

2. In what ways does Zikora feel Kwame is unlike other successful Black men she knew?

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

4. What does Zikora notice happens to the baby when her mother holds him?

5. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?

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