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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. What country did the narrator read has the highest maternal mortality rate?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) New Zealand.

2. What does Zikora tell Kwame on the night they break up?
(a) She thinks she might be pregnant.
(b) She does not love him anymore.
(c) She has been having an affair.
(d) She is moving back to Africa.

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

4. What does Zikora's mother say when asked if she can help still Zikora for the epidural?
(a) She can manage.
(b) Anything to help my child.
(c) My pleasure.
(d) She does not need an epidural.

5. What word becomes Zikora and Kwame's word to describe a variety of things after they begin dating?
(a) Fancy.
(b) Nutty.
(c) Tasty.
(d) Cookie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Zikora when her father married a second wife?

3. What does the narrator do before moving to the edge of the bed and vomiting?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. How does Zikora interact with Dr. K when he first appears in the story and she tells him something must be wrong?

7. Who does Zikora think of when she becomes so tired she feels like she could die right there, and what happened to this person?

8. Where is the narrator at the start of "Zikora: A Short Story," why, and what relative is with her?

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

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

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