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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 name of the river between the ridges?
(a) Kiambu.
(b) Kameno.
(c) Honia.
(d) Makuyu.

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

3. From whom does Chege tell Waiyaki that he is descended?
(a) Kamiri.
(b) Murungu.
(c) Wachiori.
(d) Mugo wa Kibiro.

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

5. What is the meaning of "tiitheru"?
(a) "Blessing."
(b) "Becoming a man."
(c) "The scared place."
(d) "Of a truth."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is rumored to be coming to Makuyu?

2. Which of these is not an adjective used to describe Waiyaki's eyes?

3. What livestock are the boys in charge of?

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

5. What does Waiyaki call Muthoni?

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