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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had to tell Muthoni's family of her death?
(a) Reverend Livingstone.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) Chege.
(d) Waiyaki.

2. Who is Njeri?
(a) Muthoni's aunt.
(b) Waiyaki's mother.
(c) Chege's sister.
(d) Chege's second wife.

3. With whom does Chege discuss Muthoni's illness?
(a) An elder from Gathanjo.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Waiyaki.

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

5. What is the most striking thing about Waiyaki?
(a) His height.
(b) His smile.
(c) His voice.
(d) His eyes.

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

7. What shape does Waiyaki see in his mind?
(a) A school building.
(b) A Mugumo tree.
(c) A woman.
(d) A fire.

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

9. Who does Muthoni most wish to see while she is ill?
(a) Miriamu.
(b) Chege.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Nyambura.

10. Who once told Waiyaki that the arm of the white man is long?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) Reverend Livingstone.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Chege.

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

12. Which of these is not an argument made against Waiyaki's plans?
(a) The new taxes being imposed.
(b) Waiyaki's youth.
(c) The children weren't really learning.
(d) A smaller-than-usual expected harvest.

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

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

15. What famous quote of Jesus' does Joshua use in his sermon?
(a) "Ask and it will be given unto you; seek and ye shall find."
(b) "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
(c) "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
(d) "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tells Waiyaki that Nyambura is beautiful?

3. Who says he could kill Waiyaki?

4. Where are the circumcisions performed?

5. What does Waiyaki go to get for his father?

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