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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "The Waning Light," Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mwihaki like to do with flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) Weave them into necklaces and hair adornments.
(b) Pick them for her mother.
(c) Pick them for her sister.
(d) Pick them and throw them at Njoroge.

2. What Kenyan dish is Nyokabi making when Njoroge and his father talk about the approaching of school beginning in Chapter 4?
(a) Ugali.
(b) Pilaf.
(c) Githeri.
(d) Irio.

3. What is the local town that is described in Chapter 1?
(a) Kipanga.
(b) Kisumu.
(c) Mombasa.
(d) Eldoret.

4. Who is the village carpenter?
(a) Nganga.
(b) Ngotho.
(c) Boro.
(d) Mr. Howlands.

5. What is the answer when the teachers asks of the sound "U-u-u-u-u-u" "What animal says this?" (34)?
(a) A cow.
(b) A chicken.
(c) A sheep.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Njoroge come home to find crying and in dispute with Ngotho in Chapter 6?

2. What does the narrator say the Indians called Gandhi in Chapter 1?

3. Who is Njoroge's brother who died in the war?

4. Who says "Education is the light of Kenya," according to Kamau in Chapter 4 (38)?

5. Who is Suzannah's first child?

(see the answer key)

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