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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He asks if he can make them the tea.
(b) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.
(c) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(d) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.

2. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?
(a) He is gregarious.
(b) He is moody.
(c) He is shy.
(d) He is polite.

3. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.
(b) They have more money than he does.
(c) They have good jobs.
(d) They have completed school.

4. During what war is John's village said to have grown?
(a) The Makeno war.
(b) The Mau Mau.
(c) The Limuru war.
(d) The Kikuyu war.

5. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People from different tribes to marry.
(b) Men to marry circumcised women.
(c) People to marry if they are not in love.
(d) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?

3. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?

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

5. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John feel about the men and women he passes in the village as he walks alone to Wamuhu's hut?

2. What does John do as he prepares to leave his hut without telling his parents?

3. Describe John's interaction with the old woman carrying a large load of Kuni he meets on his walk through the village?

4. Where is Wamuhu when John arrives at her hut? How does his mother behave toward John?

5. How does John feel about his village as he walks alone just after leaving his parent's hut?

6. What is Stanley's position on his son spending time with other girls?

7. In what ways is John said to be different than other educated boys who return to the village?

8. What does John's mother tell John when he returns to the hut after returning from the tea shop and why does this worry John?

9. What happens at the tea shop John goes to during his walk alone in the village and why?

10. What does Wamuhu's father say after John leaves and his wife seems hopeful that John likes their daughter?

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