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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 63 - 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is John sure his father and the church would never let him marry Wamuhu?
(a) Because she is not Christian.
(b) Because her family is poor.
(c) Because she is not a virgin.
(d) Because she is circumcised.

2. What does John worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?
(a) He will be banished.
(b) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.
(c) They will blame his parents.
(d) They will ban him from going to church.

3. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?
(a) His mother had told everyone.
(b) HIs father told everyone at church.
(c) It was in the Swahili newspaper.
(d) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.

4. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) A Bible.
(b) His change purse.
(c) School books.
(d) His shoes.

5. What does Wamuhu tell John her mother recently asked her which makes her think she knows she is pregnant?
(a) She ate like a woman with child.
(b) She walked like a woman with child.
(c) She looked like a woman with child.
(d) She breathed like a woman with child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?

2. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

3. What is Wamuhu's mood when she and John first begin to walk together?

4. What did John's father feel about those he knew who had not been saved?

5. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?

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