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

2. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She had suspected John liked Wamuhu and that he has a good reputation.
(b) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.
(c) She worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.
(d) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.

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

4. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Wamuhu.
(d) The old woman.

5. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?
(a) He is the educated one from the village.
(b) He walked very far to get there.
(c) He is Susana's son.
(d) He has been seeing their daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

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

3. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?

4. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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