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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Church.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) Schol.
(d) The shops.

2. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?
(a) Brother.
(b) My child.
(c) Son.
(d) Nephew.

3. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Sin.
(b) Get a low-paying job.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Move.

4. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) How Jesus had died for them.
(b) How to be a good man.
(c) The importance of a good education.
(d) How to avoid trouble in the village.

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

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. How does John's mother always refer to him?

3. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

4. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?

5. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?

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