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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom is Waiyaki warned near the end of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) Joshua.

2. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Chege.
(d) Waiyaki's mother.

3. Who is Njeri?
(a) Chege's second wife.
(b) Waiyaki's mother.
(c) Muthoni's aunt.
(d) Chege's sister.

4. Which of these is not something Waiyaki says at the meeting is needed for the schools?
(a) Desks.
(b) More teachers.
(c) Pencils and paper.
(d) Lavatories.

5. What famous quote of Jesus' does Joshua use in his sermon?
(a) "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
(b) "Ask and it will be given unto you; seek and ye shall find."
(c) "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
(d) "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God."

6. Which of these men is not a teacher at the new school?
(a) Waiyaki.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Kamau.

7. Where was Nyambura supposed to meet Waiyaki at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) The school.
(b) Joshua's house.
(c) His hut.
(d) The river.

8. Who says he could kill Waiyaki?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Kamau.

9. Who once told Waiyaki that the arm of the white man is long?
(a) Chege.
(b) Reverend Livingstone.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Joshua.

10. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Chege.
(c) Nyambura.
(d) Miriamu.

11. Who besides Waiyaki knows the details of the old prophecy?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Reverend Livingstone.
(c) His mother.
(d) Joshua.

12. Who has Waiyaki tried to talk to but been unable to voice his thoughts?
(a) His mother.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) Nyambura.

13. Whom does Nyambura suspect Waiyaki of planning to visit?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Kamau.

14. What are the Christians in Makuyu called?
(a) "White Gikuyu."
(b) "Men of Joshua."
(c) "Jesus Followers."
(d) "Traitors of Murungu."

15. What does Waiyaki go to get for his father?
(a) A shrub.
(b) A healer from another ridge.
(c) A flower.
(d) White man's medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the circumcisions performed?

2. With whom does Nyambura long to discuss Muthoni's death?

3. What is it said in Chapter Seventeen that one admired in Joshua?

4. What is Nyambura's reason for not going to church in Chapter Seventeen?

5. Which of these is not a reason people came to the meeting at the school?

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