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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. In Part 2: Chapter 8, what is Elizabeth's job and how do people view her because of it?
(a) She is a teacher and people envy her salary.
(b) She is a writer and people criticize her for not having a real job.
(c) She is a farmer and people respect her hard work.
(d) She is a doctor and people are inspired by her career.

2. In Part 2: Chapter 1, How does Awiti help Nyabera after her husband's death?
(a) She finds a new husband for her mother.
(b) She asks questions and demanded answers about her father's death.
(c) She takes over the household chores.
(d) She comforts her mother and offered emotional support.

3. In Part 3: Chapter 5, Why did Elizabeth insist on going to the National Hospital?
(a) Elizabeth has a personal connection with one of the doctors there.
(b) It is closer to their home.
(c) Mark wants to go there.
(d) They have better facilities than the hospital they are in.

4. In Part 2: Chapter 5, how does Owuor help Maria during her time of agony?
(a) He cooks her meals and cleaned the house.
(b) He makes her laugh with his jokes.
(c) He reads to her from psalms.
(d) He gives her money to help her situation.

5. In Part 2: Chapter 6, why do some people prophesy that Awiti will not get married if she continues to show her intelligence openly?
(a) Because they believed it would be a catastrophe for a man to marry an intelligent woman.
(b) Because education was not considered necessary for women.
(c) Because men preferred women who were not educated.
(d) Because men were intimidated by intelligent women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3: Chapter 7, what does Mark think of Tommy Muhambe?

2. In Part 2: Chapter 9, what is Elizabeth's reaction to her grandmother's death?

3. In Part 2: Chapter 3, what does Nyabera insist her mother and child call her when she returned to Yimbo?

4. In Part 2: Chapter 6, what subjects are taught in the newly founded primary school?

5. In Part 2: Chapter 4, what is the significance of Good Friday at the mission church?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2: Chapter 8, what is the main conflict the protagonist faces?

2. In Part 3: Chapter 5, who takes matters into her own hands when Mark's wife is diagnosed with a serious condition?

3. In Part 2: Chapter 2, what did the catechist tell Nyabera about learning the new religion?

4. In Part 2: Chapter 1, how did Nyabera feel about the tero system?

5. In Part 2: Chapter 6, what was the primary school like that Owuor's cousin joined?

6. In Part 3: Chapter 2, why do the white people leave Kenya after independence?

7. In Part 3: Chapter 3, what happens when Aoro and his brothers go to the river?

8. In Part 2: Chapter 7, who offers to drive Awiti to the teacher training college and how does she feel about the experience?

9. In Part 2: Chapter 10, what does Peter do after the period of mourning is over and why is it important to him?

10. In Part 2: Chapter 2, why did Nyabera join a band of travelers during her journey?

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