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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the children dismissed from school?
(a) The beating of drums.
(b) The striking of a piece of iron on a string.
(c) The teachers formally thank the children for coming and are thanked in return.
(d) The blowing of a horn.

2. What does Nyambura see as a bad omen?
(a) Clouds covering the sun.
(b) An antelope crossing their path.
(c) Muthoni's water barrel rolling down the hill.
(d) An insect landing on Muthoni's hand.

3. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Chege.
(c) Waiyaki's mother.
(d) Joshua.

4. For what sin of his wife's does Joshua beg God's forgiveness?
(a) Her lack of authority with the people of Makuyu.
(b) Her failure to give birth to a son.
(c) Her circumcision.
(d) Her disobedience.

5. Where is Muthoni taken at the end of Chapter Ten?
(a) Her father's house.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Siriana Hospital.
(d) To the river to be washed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waiyaki plan to have the children do the next day?

2. What is Nyambura's reason for not going to church in Chapter Seventeen?

3. Which of these is not a reason people came to the meeting at the school?

4. How long has Reverend Livingstone been at Siriana?

5. About whom is Waiyaki warned near the end of Chapter Sixteen?

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