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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Waiyaki feel the morning of the ceremony in Chapter Three?
(a) Excited.
(b) Angry.
(c) Dejected.
(d) Terrified.

2. Who was the great warrior who killed a lion by himself as a young man?
(a) Wachiori.
(b) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(c) Kamiri.
(d) Murungu.

3. What is the meaning of the river's name?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Cure, bring-back-to-life.
(c) Pure, clean-the-soul.
(d) Fertility.

4. Where did Waiyaki's mother take him at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) To a priest.
(b) To see his father.
(c) To the medicine man.
(d) To the river.

5. What is the thingira?
(a) The medicine man.
(b) The women's hut.
(c) The community well.
(d) The man's hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter Two, what event does Chege remind Waiyaki will take place the following day?

2. What does Nyambura see as a bad omen?

3. What does Joshua call himself after converting to Christianity?

4. What kind of tree grows near the edge of the sacred hill?

5. What event in Joshua's life brought him peace?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

2. Why are the two boys fighting in Chapter Two?

3. Why is Nyambura so upset by Muthoni's confession by the river?

4. What is the second birth ceremony?

5. What do Waiyaki and his father talk about on their walk to the sacred grove?

6. Describe the festivities of initiation eve.

7. What is the source of antagonism between the people of the two ridges?

8. What are Sundays typically like for Joshua?

9. What shocking information does Chege tell Waiyaki?

10. What is Muthoni's argument to Nyambura about her desire to be circumcised?

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