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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 one person Waiyaki felt he'd been able to be emotionally close to?
(a) Reverend Livingstone.
(b) His young sister.
(c) His father.
(d) Kinuthia.

2. About whom is Waiyaki warned near the end of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Kinuthia.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Kamau.

3. What is it said in Chapter Seventeen that one admired in Joshua?
(a) His fidelity.
(b) His compassion.
(c) His gentility.
(d) His strength.

4. Who leads the first split within the ridge people?
(a) Waiyaki.
(b) Nyambura.
(c) Kabonyi.
(d) Chege.

5. Who is the headmaster of the new school?
(a) Waiyaki.
(b) Kabonyi.
(c) Kamau.
(d) Kinuthia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Christians in Makuyu called?

2. On what does Kinuthia intimate the Gikuyu will have to pay taxes?

3. What is Nyambura's reason for not going to church in Chapter Seventeen?

4. What do many Gikuyu people see as a sign of a good teacher?

5. What does Waiyaki plan to have the children do the next day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joshua react to the news of his daughter's death?

2. What arguments does Kabonyi use against Waiyaki at the meeting?

3. What is the subject of the songs sung by the children?

4. How does Waiyaki feel about his mother?

5. Describe the new school.

6. Why does Muthoni think no one from her family comes to see her?

7. Why does Waiyaki become angry with the rain?

8. How does Waiyaki wait for the "surgeon" at the beginning of Chapter Ten?

9. Why does Waiyaki not feel warm toward Kamau?

10. What is Waiyaki's relationship with Kabonyi like?

(see the answer keys)

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