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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 58 - 62 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?
(a) With piety.
(b) With humility.
(c) Like nothing has changed.
(d) Like Europeans.

2. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) They have completed school.
(b) They have good jobs.
(c) They have more money than he does.
(d) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.

3. What is the main character's name?
(a) Paul.
(b) John.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Steven.

4. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?
(a) Mother.
(b) Sister.
(c) Ma'am.
(d) Auntie.

5. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) Internal conflict between families.
(b) The white man's religion.
(c) Many moved away.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?

2. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?

3. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?

4. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?

5. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?

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