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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is not a reason people came to the meeting at the school?
(a) To become a teacher.
(b) To see the famous Marioshoni school.
(c) To see the Teacher.
(d) To hear the progress reports on their children.

2. To what Bible character does Joshua compare Muthoni?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) Lot's wife.
(d) Delilah.

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

4. What does Waiyaki notice that Joshua knows well?
(a) The names of his congregation.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Hymns.
(d) The white man's laws.

5. Who tells Muthoni's family about her illness?
(a) Waiyaki.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) The tribe's medicine man.
(d) Chege.

6. What did Waiyaki propose be built for the school that was opposed?
(a) A well.
(b) Lavatories.
(c) A garden.
(d) A third building.

7. Who leads the first split within the ridge people?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Nyambura.
(c) Chege.
(d) Waiyaki.

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

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

10. Who saw Waiyaki in Mukuyu late at night?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) Kabonyi.

11. What happens when Joshua finishes his sermon?
(a) There is a recited prayer.
(b) A child is baptised.
(c) The people sing a hymn.
(d) An offering is taken.

12. What is a Kiama?
(a) A traditional secondary school.
(b) A council to preserve the tribal customs.
(c) A graduation ceremony.
(d) A traditional pilgrimage to the seat of Murungu.

13. How does Muthoni get to Siriana?
(a) She rides a donkey.
(b) She walks.
(c) She is pushed on a cart.
(d) She is carried on a stretcher.

14. What did Waiyaki forget to preach in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Importance of learning.
(b) Purity of the tribe.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Expansion of the schools.

15. What is Waiyaki called by the people?
(a) "The Teacher."
(b) "The Leader."
(c) "The Prophet."
(d) "The Chosen One."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Gikuyu Karinga" mean?

2. What do many Gikuyu people see as a sign of a good teacher?

3. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?

4. Who does Kabonyi wish were in Waiyaki's place?

5. With whom does Chege discuss Muthoni's illness?

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