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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 tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Makerere.
(c) Kikuma.
(d) Makeno.

2. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Islam.
(d) Buddhism.

3. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(b) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(c) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(d) John will not look at him.

4. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?
(a) Mother.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Auntie.
(d) Sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John find at the hut he goes to after dinner?

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

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

4. During what war is John's village said to have grown?

5. What is John's mother's name?

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