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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom did the Kenyans fight in the second Big War?
(a) The Italians.
(b) The French.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) The British.

2. What has Jacobo chosen to do after the incident at the strike meeting in Chapter 7?
(a) To have Ngotho sent to a detainment center.
(b) To have Ngotho murdered.
(c) To have Ngotho's family exiled from the village.
(d) To kick Ngotho off his land.

3. Jacobo is said to be the first black man allowed to grow what crop in the area?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Green tea.
(c) Pyrethrum.
(d) Black tea.

4. What word from the novel refers to a woman's abode?
(a) Nyumba.
(b) Thingira.
(c) Kihii.
(d) Kipanga.

5. What does Mwihaki like to do with flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) Pick them for her mother.
(b) Weave them into necklaces and hair adornments.
(c) Pick them for her sister.
(d) Pick them and throw them at Njoroge.

6. What oath does the narrator say Ngotho would not take at his son's hand or instruction in Chapter 8?
(a) The Anyanya oath.
(b) The Anzaniya oath.
(c) The Abyei oath.
(d) The Mau Mau oath.

7. How far from home is Njoroge's new school in Chapter 8?
(a) Five miles.
(b) Two miles.
(c) Ten miles.
(d) Three miles.

8. What is the local town that is described in Chapter 1?
(a) Eldoret.
(b) Kisumu.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Mombasa.

9. What does Ngotho do when Jacobo takes the stage at the strike meeting in Chapter 7?
(a) He calls the police.
(b) He stands and begins applauding.
(c) He rushes to attack Jacobo.
(d) He runs from the room.

10. Who does Njoroge come home to find crying and in dispute with Ngotho in Chapter 6?
(a) Kiarie.
(b) Thingira.
(c) Kihii.
(d) Nyokabi.

11. What word from the "Interlude" means freedom?
(a) Kiarie.
(b) Memsahib.
(c) Mucatha.
(d) Wiyathi.

12. Who arranged the meeting in the market place that Njoroge recalls in the "Interlude"?
(a) The Mau Mau.
(b) K.A.U.
(c) Ngotho.
(d) Mucatha.

13. What language do the Kikuyu people speak?
(a) The Azania Kikuyu language.
(b) The Bantu Kikuyu language.
(c) The Abyei Kikuyu language.
(d) The Anyanya Bantu language.

14. What term in Chapter 9 means "goodbye"?
(a) Kihii hi.
(b) Kipanga.
(c) Kwa Heri.
(d) Nyumba Ndeiya.

15. Who is Lucia's mother?
(a) Nganga.
(b) Memsahib.
(c) Mwihaki.
(d) Juliana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boro tells his brother Kori that he was one of how many who escaped in Chapter 8?

2. What does Njoroge recall a young Indian boy giving him, causing his mother to rebuke him, in Chapter 4?

3. When did Jomo Kenyatta serve as Kenya's Prime Minister?

4. What did Ngotho pay for his son to become an apprentice to the village carpenter?

5. Who is Suzannah's second son?

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