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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 is the name of the hospital where Zikora is giving birth?
(a) St. Luke's.
(b) St. Anne's.
(c) East Memorial.
(d) West Memorial.

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator feel about the way the nurse tells her she is not progressing?
(a) She feels she is being blamed.
(b) She feels soothed.
(c) She feels confused.
(d) She feels something is wrong.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator's mother respond to her expression of pain during labor?

5. How does Zikora feel when Kwame expresses his disapproval for the way Emmanuel treats Mmiliaku?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. Why does Kwame's reaction to Zikora's pregnancy surprise her?

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

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

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

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

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