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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 Waiyaki watching at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) A ceremonial dance.
(b) Children playing.
(c) The rain.
(d) An animal sacrifice.

2. What weapon do the two boys use to fight one another?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Knives.
(c) Sticks.
(d) Only their fists.

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

4. Who was the ancient seer from Kameno?
(a) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(b) Kamiri.
(c) Murungu.
(d) Wachiori.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nyambura quote as saying circumcision is sinful?

2. Who is Njeri?

3. Who does Muthoni most wish to see while she is ill?

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

5. Where did Waiyaki sit for the ceremony?

(see the answer key)

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