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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What livestock are the boys in charge of?

2. How many sons does Chege have?

3. What is rumored to be coming to Makuyu?

4. What is the name of the mountain Waiyaki and Chege can see in the distance at the end of Chapter Four?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the sacred place.

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

3. Describe the festivities of initiation eve.

4. What is the second birth ceremony?

5. How does Waiyaki feel toward Muthoni?

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

7. How does Joshua feel about the rite of circumcision?

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

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

10. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the importance of compromise addressed in "The River Between"? Please use at least three examples.

Essay Topic 2

In what ways does Reverend Livingstone have a great deal of influence over the rest of the other characters? Please use at least three examples.

Essay Topic 3

How is the concept of family, and its importance, portrayed in "The River between"? Please be specific.

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