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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mwihaki discover when she rushes home to announced she has passed in school in Chapter 7?
(a) That her father has been murdered.
(b) That her father has been promoted.
(c) That her father has been exiled.
(d) That her father has been attacked.

2. Who is Njoroge's brother who died in the war?
(a) Kori.
(b) Boro.
(c) Isaka.
(d) Mwangi.

3. Who is Lucia's mother?
(a) Memsahib.
(b) Nganga.
(c) Mwihaki.
(d) Juliana.

4. Who is Ngotho's second wife?
(a) Nyokabi.
(b) Njeri.
(c) Nganga.
(d) Lucia.

5. What is the area in central Kenya called where Njoroge lives in Chapter 1?
(a) Baringo.
(b) Nyanza.
(c) Uasin Gishu.
(d) Kikuyuland.

6. What term in Chapter 9 means "goodbye"?
(a) Nyumba Ndeiya.
(b) Kihii hi.
(c) Kwa Heri.
(d) Kipanga.

7. Who does Njoroge realize the European woman was who came to his English class in Chapter 5?
(a) Isaka's wife.
(b) Mr. Howland's daughter.
(c) Ngotho's adoptive mother.
(d) Kori's fiancee.

8. What have Kamau's wages been raised to in Chapter 7?
(a) 20 shillings.
(b) 40 shillings.
(c) 50 shillings.
(d) 30 shillings.

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

10. Where is Karanja from?
(a) Kihii.
(b) Ndeiya.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Nairobi.

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

12. When was Jomo Kenyatta born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1903.

13. The bush around what kind of trees is said to be a holy place in Chapter 2?
(a) Fig trees.
(b) Banana trees.
(c) Oak trees.
(d) Sycamore trees.

14. Who says of Jomo in Chapter 9, "It knew he would lose. I always said that all white men are the same. His lawyers must have been bribed" (74)?
(a) Isaka.
(b) Kihii.
(c) Kori.
(d) Nyokabi.

15. Who is Suzannah's first child?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Jason.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Njeri's three sons?

2. What is Kamau apprenticeshipping to become in Chapter 1?

3. What is the name of the village were Njoroge lives in Chapter 1?

4. Where has the chief been killed in the "Interlude"?

5. What is the local town that is described in Chapter 1?

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