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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Evil influences.
(b) Danger.
(c) Disease.
(d) Not getting a good education.

2. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?
(a) Sister.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Mother.
(d) Auntie.

3. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
(a) People have lit a fire for light.
(b) People are having Bible study.
(c) The evening is unusually cold.
(d) Women have returned from the shambas.

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

5. What does John worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?
(a) They will blame his parents.
(b) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.
(c) He will be banished.
(d) They will ban him from going to church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

2. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

3. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?

4. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?

5. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

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