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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. Which of these is not used as an instrument during the initiation dances?
(a) Broken tins.
(b) Guitars.
(c) Whistles.
(d) Horns.

2. What did the ancient seer call white men?
(a) "People from the other world."
(b) "People with clothes like butterflies."
(c) "People with milk-skin."
(d) "People with clothes like flowers."

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

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

5. What event in Joshua's life brought him peace?
(a) His wedding.
(b) His second-birth ceremony.
(c) The birth of his first child.
(d) His baptism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many daughters were born to the father and mother of the tribe?

2. On what do Nyambura and Muthoni sit while talking at the river?

3. What betrays Chege's age to Waiyaki?

4. From whom does Chege tell Waiyaki that he is descended?

5. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Chege's explanation for why antelope run from men?

5. What stops the boys' fight in Chapter Two?

6. How does Waiyaki feel about the initiation celebrations?

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

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

9. What rumors about the white people are circulating?

10. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

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