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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters One through Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the mountain Waiyaki and Chege can see in the distance at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Kilimanjaro.
(b) Karenga.
(c) Kerinyaga.
(d) Kulal.

2. How many daughters were born to the father and mother of the tribe?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

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

4. What does "tene na tene" mean?
(a) "World without end."
(b) "Fight the fear."
(c) "Under the tree."
(d) "Across the river."

5. What gave Waiyaki a scar above his left eye?
(a) A wild boar.
(b) A lion.
(c) A hyena.
(d) A wild goat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waiyaki think his father is blessing as they walk during Chapter Four?

2. What animal was slaughtered for the ceremony?

3. Who were Gikuyu and Mumbi?

4. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?

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

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