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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom is Waiyaki warned near the end of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Kinuthia.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) Kamau.
(d) Joshua.

2. Who were Gikuyu and Mumbi?
(a) Great warriors of the tribe.
(b) The first people of the tribe.
(c) Waiyaki's grandparents.
(d) The first people to settle on the Kameno ridge.

3. At the end of Chapter Two, what event does Chege remind Waiyaki will take place the following day?
(a) The naming ceremony for his sister's first son.
(b) A celebration of the harvest.
(c) His sister's wedding.
(d) His second birth ceremony.

4. Who is Njeri?
(a) Chege's second wife.
(b) Muthoni's aunt.
(c) Waiyaki's mother.
(d) Chege's sister.

5. Who does Kabonyi wish were in Waiyaki's place?
(a) Kinuthia.
(b) Himself.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Kamau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not used as an instrument during the initiation dances?

2. What is the name of the new school?

3. Where does Chege send his son?

4. What livestock are the boys in charge of?

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

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