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

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
(a) Kuni.
(b) Water.
(c) Cassava.
(d) Laundry.

3. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?
(a) Brother.
(b) Nephew.
(c) My child.
(d) Son.

4. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Get a low-paying job.
(b) Sin.
(c) Move.
(d) Quit school.

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 will not look at him.
(b) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(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 do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

2. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?

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

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?

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

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