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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 do many Gikuyu people see as a sign of a good teacher?
(a) Hearing the teacher yell at the students.
(b) The beating of students.
(c) Long school days.
(d) The arrival of real books in the village.

2. Why do young people visit the river before the rite of circumcision?
(a) To numb their skin.
(b) To wash themselves.
(c) To drink from the river.
(d) To wet rags for use during the ceremony.

3. From where did the ancient seer whisper to his son that salvation would come?
(a) Across the ocean.
(b) God.
(c) White man.
(d) The hills.

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

5. Where does Chege send his son?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Siriana Mission Centre.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the children dismissed from school?

2. Which of these is not a god worshiped by the Kikuyu?

3. Which of these behaviors is not one condemned by Joshua?

4. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?

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

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