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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(b) John's father asks him when his journey is.
(c) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(d) John's father asks him if he did his homework.

2. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?
(a) Sister.
(b) Auntie.
(c) Mother.
(d) Ma'am.

3. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) Internal conflict between families.
(b) Many moved away.
(c) The white man's religion.
(d) Education.

4. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Unconditional love.
(b) Tough love.
(c) Moral torture.
(d) Excessive leniency.

5. What does John see in the nightmare he has after he first spoke to Wamuhu?
(a) Babies and dolls.
(b) His mother and his school.
(c) Circumcision and ghosts.
(d) His father and God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?

2. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?

3. Where does John go the evening after he and his father had gone shopping?

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

5. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?

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