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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten through Fourteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do young people visit the river before the rite of circumcision?
(a) To wet rags for use during the ceremony.
(b) To numb their skin.
(c) To wash themselves.
(d) To drink from the river.

2. From where did the ancient seer whisper to his son that salvation would come?
(a) God.
(b) The hills.
(c) White man.
(d) Across the ocean.

3. What rumor circulates about Joshua?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He drinks in secret.
(c) He killed a white man.
(d) He still makes sacrifices to Murungu.

4. Who reveals Muthoni's secret?
(a) Nyambura.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Miriamu.
(d) Kabonyi.

5. For how long has Nyambura noticed a moodiness about Muthoni in Chapter Six?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three days.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What livestock are the boys in charge of?

2. What is the name of the new school?

3. Who once told Waiyaki that the arm of the white man is long?

4. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?

5. On what does Kinuthia intimate the Gikuyu will have to pay taxes?

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