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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time does Wamuhu agreed to wait before telling her parents she is pregnant?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 1 day.

2. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?
(a) Make him dinner.
(b) Read the Bible with him.
(c) Make him tea.
(d) Go for a walk with him.

3. Whose anger drives John's treatment of Wamuhu at the end of the story?
(a) His professors.
(b) His father and the villagers.
(c) Reverend Carstone.
(d) His mother.

4. Who does John find at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) His old teacher.
(b) His best friend.
(c) Wamuhu's parents.
(d) The old woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

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

4. What does John fear the government might do if he has a child with Wamuhu?

5. What does John see in the nightmare he has after he first spoke to Wamuhu?

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