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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ngotho's employer's wife who is described as being too thin?
(a) Mwihaki.
(b) Memsahib.
(c) Juliana.
(d) Njeri.

2. 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.

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

4. With whom does Njoroge associate Adam from the Bible?
(a) Kihii.
(b) Mumbi.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Gikuyu.

5. Where did Mwihaki's father learn English?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Kisumu.
(c) Mombasa.
(d) Siriana.

6. To whom does Njoroge associate the Gikuyu people in Chapter 5?
(a) The slaves in America.
(b) The Jews in Germany.
(c) The children of Israel.
(d) The soldiers of war.

7. Who is Ngotho's first wife?
(a) Juliana.
(b) Njeri.
(c) Lucia.
(d) Nyokabi.

8. The narrator states in Chapter 1 that "time and bad conditions do not favour" what (3)?
(a) "Beauty."
(b) "Society."
(c) "Youth."
(d) "People."

9. Who shouts in the end of Chapter 9, "Never! Never! Black people must rise up and fight" (75)?
(a) Mwangi.
(b) Kiarie.
(c) Kori.
(d) Boro.

10. Where has the chief been killed in the "Interlude"?
(a) Nyumba.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Murang'a.

11. Who is the male teacher that Njoroge recalls teaching his first lesson in school?
(a) Nganga.
(b) Boro.
(c) Isaka.
(d) Michael.

12. With what hero from the Bible does Njoroge admire and often identify himself?
(a) David.
(b) John.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Moses.

13. When did Jomo Kenyatta die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1988.

14. Exactly how much later does the narrator describe the "Interlude" taking place?
(a) Two and a half years later.
(b) Three and a half years later.
(c) Four and a half years later.
(d) One and a half years later.

15. Who does Kamau say Boro called Jomo in Chapter 5?
(a) The Black Noah.
(b) The Black Jesus.
(c) The Black Judas.
(d) The Black Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Njoroge associate Eve from the Bible?

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

3. For whom did the Kenyans fight in the second Big War?

4. What word from the "Interlude" means freedom?

5. According to Karanja's story in Chapter 8, at what time did Dedan Kimathi say he would visit the police station in Nyeri?

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