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

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

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

4. What reaction did Waiyaki have that was unusual?
(a) He laughed.
(b) He passed out.
(c) He fell asleep.
(d) He cried.

5. Which of these behaviors is not one condemned by Joshua?
(a) Singing songs of praise.
(b) Traditional dances.
(c) Circumcision.
(d) Drinking alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Gikuyu people see as the white man's "magic"?

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

3. Who were Demi na Mathathi?

4. What event in Joshua's life brought him peace?

5. What do the white men see in Waiyaki?

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