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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has become the leader of the hills following Chege's death?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) An elder from Gathanjo.
(d) Waiyaki.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who besides Waiyaki knows the details of the old prophecy?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Reverend Livingstone.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) His mother.

8. Who does Muthoni say she sees as she is dying?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Nyambura.
(d) Murungu.

9. Who does Kabonyi wish were in Waiyaki's place?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Himself.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Kinuthia.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waiyaki wish he could hold close to him?

2. Which of these men is not a teacher at the new school?

3. What rumor is circulated about Muthoni after her death?

4. Who is Nyambura going to see?

5. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?

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