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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a Kiama?
(a) A traditional pilgrimage to the seat of Murungu.
(b) A traditional secondary school.
(c) A graduation ceremony.
(d) A council to preserve the tribal customs.

2. What is it said in Chapter Seventeen that one admired in Joshua?
(a) His gentility.
(b) His strength.
(c) His fidelity.
(d) His compassion.

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

4. Who has Waiyaki tried to talk to but been unable to voice his thoughts?
(a) Kamau.
(b) His mother.
(c) Nyambura.
(d) Kinuthia.

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

6. Who says he could kill Waiyaki?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Joshua.

7. Who knows Waiyaki was in Joshua's church?
(a) Kabonyi.
(b) One of his student's parents.
(c) Nyambura.
(d) Kinuthia.

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

9. Where is Muthoni taken at the end of Chapter Ten?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) To the river to be washed.
(c) Siriana Hospital.
(d) Her father's house.

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

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

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

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

14. How does Muthoni get to Siriana?
(a) She is pushed on a cart.
(b) She rides a donkey.
(c) She walks.
(d) She is carried on a stretcher.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who dies at the end of Chapter Twelve?

3. Who tells Waiyaki that Nyambura is beautiful?

4. Who besides Waiyaki knows the details of the old prophecy?

5. What does "Gikuyu Karinga" mean?

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