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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. How does Muthoni get to Siriana?
(a) She is carried on a stretcher.
(b) She is pushed on a cart.
(c) She walks.
(d) She rides a donkey.

2. On what does Kinuthia intimate the Gikuyu will have to pay taxes?
(a) Their livestock.
(b) Their crops.
(c) Their huts.
(d) Their land.

3. With what does Waiyaki become angry near the end of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) The rain.
(b) The idea of having to pay taxes.
(c) Kamau's arguments.
(d) His father's prophecy.

4. Who had to tell Muthoni's family of her death?
(a) Reverend Livingstone.
(b) Waiyaki.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Chege.

5. Where does Waiyaki think he will go to get more teachers?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Kerinyaga.
(c) Mukuyu.
(d) Siriana.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Reverend Livingstone been at Siriana?

2. Which of these men is not a teacher at the new school?

3. What is Waiyaki called by the people?

4. What starts off the meeting of the parents?

5. Whom does Nyambura suspect Waiyaki of planning to visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Waiyaki become angry with the rain?

2. Why were parents proud when their child came home with a tear-stained face?

3. What is the subject of the songs sung by the children?

4. What changes Reverend Livingstone's mind about how to deal with the traditional tribal customs?

5. What images come to Waiyaki while he is trying to sleep?

6. What is the overall reaction to Muthoni's death among the people of the ridges?

7. What is Waiyaki's relationship with Kabonyi like?

8. Why does Waiyaki feel badly for Njeri?

9. What is it that people most admire in Joshua?

10. Why does Waiyaki not feel warm toward Kamau?

(see the answer keys)

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