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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?
(a) Wamuhu.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) The old woman.

2. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) Men to marry circumcised women.
(b) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.
(c) People from different tribes to marry.
(d) People to marry if they are not in love.

3. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?
(a) Threaten.
(b) Admonish.
(c) Persecute.
(d) Antagonize.

4. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?
(a) Folding laundry.
(b) Hope.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Despair.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?

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

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

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

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