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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. What does Chege tell Waiyaki the bark of a certain tree is good for?
(a) Fever.
(b) Rashes.
(c) A fresh wound.
(d) Headaches.

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

3. For what sin of his wife's does Joshua beg God's forgiveness?
(a) Her failure to give birth to a son.
(b) Her lack of authority with the people of Makuyu.
(c) Her disobedience.
(d) Her circumcision.

4. Who was the ancient seer from Kameno?
(a) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(b) Kamiri.
(c) Wachiori.
(d) Murungu.

5. What does Joshua's house look like?
(a) A rectangular building with a tin roof.
(b) A log cabin.
(c) A round, thatched hut.
(d) A mud-brick, square structure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Waiyaki shocked to see at the initiation preparations?

2. Who is sent out to find Muthoni?

3. What does Nyambura see as a bad omen?

4. Who were Demi na Mathathi?

5. What rumor circulates about Joshua?

Short Essay Questions

1. What rumors about the white people are circulating?

2. How does Nyambura feel about the river?

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

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

5. Describe the sacred place.

6. What is the second birth ceremony?

7. Why does Nyambura leave the village at the end of Chapter Eight?

8. How are the two ridges, Kameno and Makuyu, described?

9. How does Waiyaki feel about the initiation celebrations?

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

(see the answer keys)

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