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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Gikuyu Karinga" mean?
(a) "Gikuyu land forever."
(b) "Education is imperative."
(c) "Never surrender."
(d) "Keep the tribe pure."

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

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

4. What are the Christians in Makuyu called?
(a) "Jesus Followers."
(b) "White Gikuyu."
(c) "Men of Joshua."
(d) "Traitors of Murungu."

5. What do the Gikuyu people see as the white man's "magic"?
(a) Education.
(b) The new train.
(c) Modern weapons.
(d) Medicine.

6. Which of these is not a function of the small building Waiyaki is in at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Staff room.
(b) Waiyaki's office.
(c) Classroom.
(d) Store room.

7. What is given to Waiyaki to cover him after his circumcision?
(a) Wet rags.
(b) A tiger skin.
(c) A colorful blanket.
(d) A white sheet.

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

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

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

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

12. What is Nyambura's reason for not going to church in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) She is exhausted.
(b) A fever.
(c) A stomachache.
(d) A headache.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has Waiyaki tried to talk to but been unable to voice his thoughts?

2. What kind of disease does Chege have?

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

4. What gives Nyambura peace?

5. Who is the headmaster of the new school?

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