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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what does Kinuthia intimate the Gikuyu will have to pay taxes?
(a) Their huts.
(b) Their livestock.
(c) Their land.
(d) Their crops.

2. 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.

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

4. Which of these men is not a teacher at the new school?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Waiyaki.
(d) Kamau.

5. What does Joshua's house look like?
(a) A mud-brick, square structure.
(b) A log cabin.
(c) A rectangular building with a tin roof.
(d) A round, thatched hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Kiama?

2. With what does Waiyaki become angry near the end of Chapter Thirteen?

3. Why does Kabonyi travel the ridges?

4. Who is the headmaster of the new school?

5. From where did the ancient seer whisper to his son that salvation would come?

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