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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. With whom is Waiyaki talking when Nyambura passes them?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Kinuthia.

2. Who was the one person Waiyaki felt he'd been able to be emotionally close to?
(a) Reverend Livingstone.
(b) His father.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) His young sister.

3. What does Waiyaki wish he could hold close to him?
(a) His sister's spirit.
(b) The memory of his father.
(c) The river.
(d) The moon.

4. What rumor is circulated about Muthoni after her death?
(a) She actually ran away and isn't dead.
(b) She was poisoned by the missionaries.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) She was pregnant.

5. Whom is Waiyaki shocked to see at the initiation preparations?
(a) Nyambura.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) Muthoni.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what night are the social codes relaxed between men and women?

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

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

4. How are the children dismissed from school?

5. What do the majority of the houses in the village look like?

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