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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters One through Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thingira?
(a) The community well.
(b) The women's hut.
(c) The man's hut.
(d) The medicine man.

2. What is the name of the river between the ridges?
(a) Honia.
(b) Kameno.
(c) Makuyu.
(d) Kiambu.

3. How many daughters were born to the father and mother of the tribe?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

4. Who was the great warrior who killed a lion by himself as a young man?
(a) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(b) Murungu.
(c) Wachiori.
(d) Kamiri.

5. At the end of Chapter Two, what event does Chege remind Waiyaki will take place the following day?
(a) The naming ceremony for his sister's first son.
(b) A celebration of the harvest.
(c) His sister's wedding.
(d) His second birth ceremony.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?

2. Where did Waiyaki sit for the ceremony?

3. Where did Waiyaki's mother take him at the end of Chapter Three?

4. What is the name of the mountain Waiyaki and Chege can see in the distance at the end of Chapter Four?

5. What does "tene na tene" mean?

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