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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the river's name?
(a) Pure, clean-the-soul.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Graceful.
(d) Cure, bring-back-to-life.

2. On what night are the social codes relaxed between men and women?
(a) The harvest celebration.
(b) The night after the initiation ceremonies.
(c) The celebration of a son's birth.
(d) The eve of the initiation cermonies.

3. What event in Joshua's life brought him peace?
(a) His second-birth ceremony.
(b) The birth of his first child.
(c) His baptism.
(d) His wedding.

4. At the end of Chapter Two, what event does Chege remind Waiyaki will take place the following day?
(a) A celebration of the harvest.
(b) The naming ceremony for his sister's first son.
(c) His second birth ceremony.
(d) His sister's wedding.

5. What do the white men see in Waiyaki?
(a) A way to make peace with the native people.
(b) A brilliant future military leader.
(c) A possible leader of the Christian church.
(d) A troublesome boy.

6. What does Chege tell Waiyaki the bark of a certain tree is good for?
(a) A fresh wound.
(b) Fever.
(c) Rashes.
(d) Headaches.

7. On what do Nyambura and Muthoni sit while talking at the river?
(a) Boulders.
(b) Tree stumps.
(c) Water barrels.
(d) The grass.

8. Which of these is not an adjective used to describe Waiyaki's eyes?
(a) Hooded.
(b) Sad.
(c) Large.
(d) Liquid.

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

10. What does Joshua blame for the ills of the land?
(a) The white man's interference.
(b) The impending apocalypse.
(c) God's judgment of him.
(d) The blindness of his people.

11. Where did Waiyaki sit for the ceremony?
(a) Behind his father.
(b) Between his mother's thighs.
(c) In front of the tribe's elders.
(d) Alone by the river.

12. How many wives does Chege have?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

13. What killed Chege's first two wives?
(a) A flood.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Famine.

14. What does Waiyaki call Muthoni?
(a) A sinner.
(b) A rebel.
(c) A witch.
(d) A beautiful girl.

15. Who was the great witch whose magic won him great fame?
(a) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(b) Murungu.
(c) Wachiori.
(d) Kamiri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Waiyaki speak to Muthoni?

2. What weapon do the two boys use to fight one another?

3. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?

4. What does Waiyaki think his father is blessing as they walk during Chapter Four?

5. Which of these is not something Muthoni tells Waiyaki she wants?

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