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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 killed Chege's first two wives?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) A flood.
(c) Famine.
(d) Malaria.

2. Which of these is not something Muthoni tells Waiyaki she wants?
(a) For her art to be seen around the world.
(b) Children to play around the hearth.
(c) To be a woman made beautiful in the tribe.
(d) A husband for her bed.

3. From where did the ancient seer whisper to his son that salvation would come?
(a) God.
(b) White man.
(c) Across the ocean.
(d) The hills.

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

5. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?
(a) Sharing the tribe's disagreements.
(b) The oilskin of the house.
(c) The coming-of-age ceremonies.
(d) Fruit from the sacred grove.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "tene na tene" mean?

3. Where did Waiyaki's mother take him at the end of Chapter Three?

4. What is rumored to be coming to Makuyu?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Joshua's first response when he discovers Muthoni is missing?

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

3. What is the second birth ceremony?

4. How does Waiyaki feel about the initiation celebrations?

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

6. What are Sundays typically like for Joshua?

7. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

8. How does Waiyaki feel toward Muthoni?

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

10. What does Chege tell Waiyaki he will have to do?

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