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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 is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Ih his room at school.
(b) At the bus stop.
(c) Against the tree outside his hut.
(d) In the doorway of his hut.

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

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

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

5. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?
(a) He fears his father knows his secret.
(b) He fears his father lost his job.
(c) He fears his father is going to tell him he cannot go away to school.
(d) He fears his father is going to tell him he is moving out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

3. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?

4. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?

5. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?

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