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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Darkness Falls," Chapters 14 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Njoroge recall a young Indian boy giving him, causing his mother to rebuke him, in Chapter 4?
(a) A candy.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A shirt.
(d) A loaf of bread.

2. The High School for Europeans is located a few miles from where, according to the narrator in Chapter 12?
(a) Nyeri.
(b) Siriana.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Ndeiya.

3. What oath does the narrator say Ngotho would not take at his son's hand or instruction in Chapter 8?
(a) The Anyanya oath.
(b) The Anzaniya oath.
(c) The Mau Mau oath.
(d) The Abyei oath.

4. Before Njoroge started school, he was lent to his distant uncle to help him in doing what?
(a) Picking strawberries.
(b) Maintaining his shop.
(c) Looking after cattle.
(d) Picking pyrithrem.

5. What has Jacobo chosen to do after the incident at the strike meeting in Chapter 7?
(a) To have Ngotho murdered.
(b) To have Ngotho sent to a detainment center.
(c) To kick Ngotho off his land.
(d) To have Ngotho's family exiled from the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "Ihii cia mutitu" mean (68)?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 12 that Mr. Howlands wants is to bring Ngotho to what?

3. To whom does Njoroge associate the Gikuyu people in Chapter 5?

4. What grade are Njoroge and Mwihaki in when the begin to learn English in Chapter 5?

5. How is the Siriana Secondary School described by the narrator in the opening of Chapter 14 (108)?

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