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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Six through Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is not used as an instrument during the initiation dances?
(a) Whistles.
(b) Guitars.
(c) Broken tins.
(d) Horns.

2. What did the ancient seer call white men?
(a) "People with milk-skin."
(b) "People with clothes like butterflies."
(c) "People with clothes like flowers."
(d) "People from the other world."

3. How did Waiyaki feel the morning of the ceremony in Chapter Three?
(a) Angry.
(b) Excited.
(c) Dejected.
(d) Terrified.

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

5. Who was the great warrior who killed a lion by himself as a young man?
(a) Murungu.
(b) Wachiori.
(c) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(d) Kamiri.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joshua call himself after converting to Christianity?

2. What kind of animal does Waiyaki sit next to in the thingira at the beginning of Chapter Four?

3. Where does Waiyaki speak to Muthoni?

4. What is the name of the mountain Waiyaki and Chege can see in the distance at the end of Chapter Four?

5. Who were Demi na Mathathi?

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