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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 skill taught to the children?
(a) Writing.
(b) Foreign language.
(c) Reading.
(d) Scientific inquiry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who wishes s/he had been told of Muthoni's illness earlier?
(a) Miriamu.
(b) Nyambura.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Chege.

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

11. How long has Reverend Livingstone been at Siriana?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Twenty-two years.
(d) Twelve years.

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

13. What does Waiyaki wish he could hold close to him?
(a) The moon.
(b) His sister's spirit.
(c) The river.
(d) The memory of his father.

14. To what Bible character does Joshua compare Muthoni?
(a) Delilah.
(b) Lot's wife.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Mary Magdalene.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has become the leader of the hills following Chege's death?

2. What does Reverend Livingstone usually wear on his head?

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

4. On what does Kinuthia intimate the Gikuyu will have to pay taxes?

5. What is the most striking thing about Waiyaki?

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