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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 function of the small building Waiyaki is in at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Staff room.
(b) Classroom.
(c) Waiyaki's office.
(d) Store room.

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

3. Which of these is not something Waiyaki says at the meeting is needed for the schools?
(a) Lavatories.
(b) More teachers.
(c) Pencils and paper.
(d) Desks.

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

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

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

7. What is the name of the new school?
(a) Demi na Mathathi.
(b) Marioshoni.
(c) Kiama.
(d) Kihii.

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

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

10. What does Waiyaki go to get for his father?
(a) A flower.
(b) A shrub.
(c) A healer from another ridge.
(d) White man's medicine.

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

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

13. How are the children dismissed from school?
(a) The beating of drums.
(b) The striking of a piece of iron on a string.
(c) The blowing of a horn.
(d) The teachers formally thank the children for coming and are thanked in return.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Muthoni taken at the end of Chapter Ten?

2. Where was Nyambura supposed to meet Waiyaki at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen?

3. Whom does Nyambura suspect Waiyaki of planning to visit?

4. With whom is Waiyaki talking when Nyambura passes them?

5. Who says he could kill Waiyaki?

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