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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saw Waiyaki in Mukuyu late at night?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kinuthia.
(d) Kabonyi.

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

3. Which of these men is not a teacher at the new school?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Waiyaki.
(d) Kabonyi.

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

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

6. Whom does Nyambura suspect Waiyaki of planning to visit?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Kamau.
(d) Kabonyi.

7. What is Waiyaki watching at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) A ceremonial dance.
(b) Children playing.
(c) An animal sacrifice.
(d) The rain.

8. Who was the one person Waiyaki felt he'd been able to be emotionally close to?
(a) His father.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Reverend Livingstone.
(d) His young sister.

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

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

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

12. 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) "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
(c) "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
(d) "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God."

13. With what does Waiyaki become angry near the end of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) The idea of having to pay taxes.
(b) His father's prophecy.
(c) The rain.
(d) Kamau's arguments.

14. Where was Nyambura supposed to meet Waiyaki at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) The river.
(b) His hut.
(c) The school.
(d) Joshua's house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Waiyaki propose be built for the school that was opposed?

2. What does Waiyaki plan to have the children do the next day?

3. Which of these is not a reason people came to the meeting at the school?

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

5. What shape does Waiyaki see in his mind?

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