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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 does Waiyaki go to get for his father?
(a) White man's medicine.
(b) A healer from another ridge.
(c) A flower.
(d) A shrub.

2. Which of these is not a god worshiped by the Kikuyu?
(a) Murungu.
(b) Mwenenyaga.
(c) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(d) Ngai.

3. What rumor circulates about Joshua?
(a) He still makes sacrifices to Murungu.
(b) He killed a white man.
(c) He is very ill.
(d) He drinks in secret.

4. Where did Waiyaki's mother take him at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) To the river.
(b) To the medicine man.
(c) To a priest.
(d) To see his father.

5. What is the name of the new school?
(a) Kiama.
(b) Demi na Mathathi.
(c) Kihii.
(d) Marioshoni.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says he could kill Waiyaki?

2. What betrays Chege's age to Waiyaki?

3. Which of these is not an adjective used to describe Waiyaki's eyes?

4. To whom are sacrifices made before the initiation season?

5. Who leads the first split within the ridge people?

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