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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Wamuhu walks away, what does John feel she might be doing to him?
(a) Using him.
(b) Blackmailing him.
(c) Lying to him.
(d) Toying with his heart.

2. Why does John say he had come to see Wamuhu that evening?
(a) Because they had discussed waiting a week before she told her parents.
(b) He wanted to ask her to marry him.
(c) He wanted to say goodbye before going to school.
(d) Because he missed her.

3. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Kuni.
(c) Cassava.
(d) Water.

4. What is John's mother's name?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Susana.
(c) Mary.
(d) Annie.

5. Whose anger drives John's treatment of Wamuhu at the end of the story?
(a) His father and the villagers.
(b) His professors.
(c) Reverend Carstone.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's father's name?

2. What does John do before leaving his hut in hopes his father will not know he left?

3. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?

4. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?

5. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

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