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

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

3. What does Waiyaki plan to have the children do the next day?
(a) Rethatch the roof.
(b) Plant a garden.
(c) Mud the building.
(d) Dig trenches around the school.

4. What kind of tree grows near the edge of the sacred hill?
(a) Baobob.
(b) Camphor.
(c) Mugumo.
(d) Acacia.

5. Who is weeping at the end of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Waiyaki's mother.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) Chege.
(d) Nyambura.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the season of long rains called?

2. Where does Waiyaki think he will go to get more teachers?

3. How many daughters were born to the father and mother of the tribe?

4. Who knows Waiyaki was in Joshua's church?

5. Who does Waiyaki set off to see in the night?

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