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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 20 - 41 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arms to do show off their capabilities after Legs cannot complete the challenge?
(a) Writes a letter.
(b) Builds a house.
(c) Threads needles and hurls spears.
(d) Flips through a book.

2. What problem did Hands encounter when they succeeded at turning the body upside down?
(a) The heat from the ground made it impossible to stay like that for long.
(b) They could barely move.
(c) A four-legged stepped on them causing the Body to topple over.
(d) They hurt from the gravel below.

3. What issue does Eyes have while Hands tries to complete the challenge?
(a) They are getting too much dust in them.
(b) They can see nothing but the ground.
(c) They are distracted looking at all the feet and hooves.
(d) They cannot seem to open once upside down.

4. What does Legs challenge Arms to do in the contest?
(a) Legs challenges that Hands should ride a bicycle around the circle of spectators.
(b) Legs challenges that Arms should run from one side of the forest to the other.
(c) Legs challenges that Hands should carry the whole body from one part of the circle to the other.
(d) Legs challenges that Arms should skip around the spectators' circle.

5. Who wrote The Upright Revolution, or Why Humans Walk Upright?
(a) Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ.
(b) Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
(c) Mũkoma wa Thiong'o.
(d) Ngugi wa Mirii.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of Legs' and Arms' corresponding parts?

2. Who are the types of water-dwellers who come to the contest?

3. Which body "part borrowed sound from Mouth and laughed and laughed” (32) at Legs?

4. What does Legs say about Arms' "long slim fingers" (16).

5. What use can Legs and Arms borrow from Nose?

(see the answer key)

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