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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what war is John's village said to have grown?
(a) The Mau Mau.
(b) The Makeno war.
(c) The Limuru war.
(d) The Kikuyu war.

2. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He asks if he can make them the tea.
(b) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.
(c) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.
(d) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.

3. 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 cleaned his hut.
(c) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(d) John's father asks him if he did his homework.

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. 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 mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(b) John will not look at him.
(c) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(d) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

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

3. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

4. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

5. What is John's feeling toward his father?

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