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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What starts off the meeting of the parents?
(a) A celebratory feast.
(b) Proposals for the improvement of the schools.
(c) A sacrifice to Gikuyu and Mumbi.
(d) The children singing.

2. Whom does Nyambura suspect Waiyaki of planning to visit?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) Kabonyi.

3. Who visits Waiyaki's hut in Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Kinuthia.
(b) Nyambura.
(c) Kamau.
(d) His mother.

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

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

6. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Waiyaki's mother.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Chege.
(d) Kabonyi.

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

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

9. What does Reverend Livingstone usually wear on his head?
(a) A pith helmet.
(b) A bandana.
(c) A fedora.
(d) His glasses.

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

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

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

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

14. With whom is Waiyaki talking when Nyambura passes them?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Kinuthia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Waiyaki called by the people?

2. Who had to tell Muthoni's family of her death?

3. What does "Gikuyu Karinga" mean?

4. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?

5. Who was the one person Waiyaki felt he'd been able to be emotionally close to?

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