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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Variable Winds (Chapters 1 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 2: Chapter 3, how does Nyabera's mother react when her daughter expresses her concern about not being able to have children with the new religion?
(a) She ignores her daughter's concern and changed the subject.
(b) She offers to help her daughter find a solution to the problem..
(c) She laughs at her daughter's concern.
(d) She agrees with her daughter and advised her to leave the new religion.

2. In Part 2: Chapter 6, what is the purpose of education for African boys during that time?
(a) To lift the yoke of poverty by tilling the land.
(b) To work for the white man.
(c) To become wealthy by owning cattle.
(d) To gain knowledge and skills.

3. In Part 2: Chapter 5, who is the boy that Maria realizes loved her like a mother?
(a) Her nephew Owuor.
(b) A child she had been taking care of in the village.
(c) The son of the married man she had been with.
(d) Her own son.

4. In Part 4: Chapter 5, what is Becky's response when Vera suggests sending her children away for their own good?
(a) She ignores the suggestion.
(b) She becomes angry and defensive.
(c) She agrees with Vera's suggestion.
(d) She apologizes and promised to do better.

5. In Part 2: Chapter 4, what does the catechist notice about Akoko that led him to build a house for her?
(a) She is very talkative and gossipy.
(b) She is an excellent cook.
(c) She is wealthy and had many possessions.
(d) She never repeats anything she heard to anyone and rarely socialized.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3: Chapter 9, why does Vera think it is important for Becky to tell their parents about her engagement to John?

2. In Part 1: Chapter 11, who is the wife of Ramogi?

3. In Part 4: Chapter 6, how do Becky's children end up living with Wandia and Aoro?

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 4: Chapter 7, which child is an all-round student?

(see the answer key)

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