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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: The Girl Child (Chapters 7 - 12).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1: Chapter 6, what do the footloose wanderer Ambere K’ongoso bring news of?
(a) A new kind of medicine that could cure any disease.
(b) White-skinned people who now ruled most of the land.
(c) A new religion sweeping across the land.
(d) A great famine that was coming.

2. In Part 1: Chapter 8, who arrives in the village wearing a long garb and a red head dress?
(a) A white garbed person.
(b) A strange man.
(c) A government official.
(d) The chief of Jodongo.

3. In Part 1: Chapter 8, how do the people feel about their chief and his family?
(a) They hold them in high esteem and love them.
(b) They fear them.
(c) They are indifferent towards them.
(d) They despise them.

4. In Part 1: Chapter 7, what does the chief think might have happened to Obura?
(a) He is kidnapped by someone.
(b) He has decided to run away.
(c) He has gone hunting without telling anyone.
(d) He is lost in the forest.

5. In Part 1: Chapter 11, who is the wife of Ramogi?
(a) Were.
(b) Onyango Randar.
(c) Lela Kabanda.
(d) Nyar Nam.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1: Chapter 9, what happens to Nyabera's first child?

2. In Part 1: Chapter 1, how many sons does Odero Gogni already have when his daughter is born?

3. In Part 1: Chapter 3, what is the purpose of the rush to Akoko's hut at cockcrow?

4. In Part 1: Chapter 1, why is the animal cock ceremoniously slaughtered and eaten the day after the baby stops crying?

5. In Part 1: Chapter 11, what is the reason for Akoko reciting the history of the people of Ramogi to the young men?

(see the answer key)

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