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

2. What do the majority of the houses in the village look like?
(a) Log cabins.
(b) Mud-brick, square structures.
(c) Round, thatched huts.
(d) Rectangular buildings with tin roofs.

3. Which of these is not a god worshiped by the Kikuyu?
(a) Ngai.
(b) Murungu.
(c) Mwenenyaga.
(d) Mugo wa Kibiro.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the great witch whose magic won him great fame?

2. What does Muthoni want to do in Chapter Six?

3. Who was the great warrior who killed a lion by himself as a young man?

4. What livestock are the boys in charge of?

5. Who does Nyambura quote as saying circumcision is sinful?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Waiyaki feel on the morning of his second birth ceremony?

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

4. Describe the sacred place.

5. Describe the village where Joshua's family lives.

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

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

8. What rumors about the white people are circulating?

9. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

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

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