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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. What is the thingira?
(a) The community well.
(b) The women's hut.
(c) The man's hut.
(d) The medicine man.

2. Which of these is not an adjective used to describe Waiyaki's eyes?
(a) Sad.
(b) Hooded.
(c) Large.
(d) Liquid.

3. On what night are the social codes relaxed between men and women?
(a) The eve of the initiation cermonies.
(b) The celebration of a son's birth.
(c) The night after the initiation ceremonies.
(d) The harvest celebration.

4. What do the Gikuyu people see as the white man's "magic"?
(a) Modern weapons.
(b) The new train.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Education.

5. Which of these behaviors is not one condemned by Joshua?
(a) Singing songs of praise.
(b) Circumcision.
(c) Traditional dances.
(d) Drinking alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waiyaki go to get for his father?

2. What do the majority of the houses in the village look like?

3. What weapon do the two boys use to fight one another?

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

5. From where did the ancient seer whisper to his son that salvation would come?

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