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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. How many sons does Chege have?

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

3. Who were Gikuyu and Mumbi?

4. Who does Waiyaki see watching him with Muthoni?

5. What does Chege tell Waiyaki the bark of a certain tree is good for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

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

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

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

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

9. What are Sundays typically like for Joshua?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the concepts that is made much of throughout "The River Between" is purity. Discuss the meaning of purity and what it means to different characters.

Essay Topic 2

Much is said in "The River Between" about what a religion needs to be and should be. Explain what Ngugi's idea of how a religion can work for and with the culture it is part of. Please be specific.

Essay Topic 3

Choose at least two characters and discuss the ways in which parental expectations play a role in developing that character; these can be positive or negative expectations and can have positive or negative ramifications.

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