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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 63 - 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Stanley do to anyone in the church who broke his strict moral rules?
(a) He would pray with them.
(b) He would sit and talk with them.
(c) He would excommunicate them.
(d) He would scold them in front of the entire parish.

2. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) School books.
(b) His change purse.
(c) A Bible.
(d) His shoes.

3. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?
(a) There is not way he would let Wamuhu marry such a scoundrel.
(b) He would be proud to call John his son.
(c) He reminds his wife that their daughter has been circumcised.
(d) He does not think an educated man like John would be interested in their daughter.

4. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Ih his room at school.
(b) At the bus stop.
(c) Against the tree outside his hut.
(d) In the doorway of his hut.

5. What does Wamuhu tell John her mother recently asked her which makes her think she knows she is pregnant?
(a) She ate like a woman with child.
(b) She breathed like a woman with child.
(c) She looked like a woman with child.
(d) She walked like a woman with child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wamuhu ask John during the discussion?

2. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?

3. Why does John say he had come to see Wamuhu that evening?

4. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?

5. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?

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