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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What starts off the meeting of the parents?
(a) A sacrifice to Gikuyu and Mumbi.
(b) Proposals for the improvement of the schools.
(c) A celebratory feast.
(d) The children singing.

2. Who is Nyambura going to see?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Johana.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Kabonyi.

3. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?
(a) Chege.
(b) Miriamu.
(c) Nyambura.
(d) Joshua.

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

5. What gives Nyambura peace?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Singing hymns.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "tene na tene" mean?

2. What does Waiyaki call Muthoni?

3. What rumor circulates about Joshua?

4. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?

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

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