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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 find at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) His best friend.
(b) Wamuhu's parents.
(c) The old woman.
(d) His old teacher.

2. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him when his journey is.
(b) John's father asks him if he did his homework.
(c) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(d) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.

3. What is John's father's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Farmer.

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

5. 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) The importance of a good education.
(b) How to be a good man.
(c) How Jesus had died for them.
(d) How to avoid trouble in the village.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does John's father call his wife?

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

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

5. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

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