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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Waiyaki think he will go to get more teachers?
(a) Mukuyu.
(b) Siriana.
(c) Kerinyaga.
(d) Nairobi.

2. Who tells Waiyaki that Nyambura is beautiful?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) His mother.

3. What is the season of long rains called?
(a) Kihii.
(b) Mwariki.
(c) Thingira.
(d) Njahi.

4. Who is the headmaster of the new school?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Waiyaki.
(d) Kinuthia.

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

6. With whom does Nyambura long to discuss Muthoni's death?
(a) Waiyaki.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Miriamu.

7. With what does Waiyaki become angry near the end of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) The idea of having to pay taxes.
(b) Kamau's arguments.
(c) His father's prophecy.
(d) The rain.

8. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?
(a) Nyambura.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Chege.
(d) Miriamu.

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

10. What do many Gikuyu people see as a sign of a good teacher?
(a) Long school days.
(b) Hearing the teacher yell at the students.
(c) The beating of students.
(d) The arrival of real books in the village.

11. What is Waiyaki watching at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) A ceremonial dance.
(b) An animal sacrifice.
(c) Children playing.
(d) The rain.

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

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

14. Where are the circumcisions performed?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) Around the main village well.
(c) On the river's banks.
(d) In each initiate's hut.

15. Which of these is not a skill taught to the children?
(a) Writing.
(b) Foreign language.
(c) Reading.
(d) Scientific inquiry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who knows Waiyaki was in Joshua's church?

2. Who once told Waiyaki that the arm of the white man is long?

3. What starts off the meeting of the parents?

4. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?

5. Who says he could kill Waiyaki?

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