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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the main character's name?
(a) Paul.
(b) John.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Steven.

3. 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.

4. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.
(b) She had suspected John liked Wamuhu and that he has a good reputation.
(c) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.
(d) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.

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 to avoid trouble in the village.
(d) How Jesus had died for them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?

5. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

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