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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kamau apprenticeshipping to become in Chapter 1?
(a) A tailor.
(b) A baker.
(c) A carpenter.
(d) A miller.

2. Who sits next to Ngotho at the meeting on the first day of the strike?
(a) Kamau.
(b) The barber.
(c) Juliana.
(d) Lucia.

3. Jacobo is said to be the first black man allowed to grow what crop in the area?
(a) Black tea.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Green tea.
(d) Pyrethrum.

4. Dedan Kimathi is referred to as the leader of what group in Chapter 8?
(a) Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of Kenya.
(b) The African Freedom Army.
(c) The Abyei Liberation Front.
(d) The Kenyan Liberation Front.

5. Who is said to have been arrested in the "Interlude"?
(a) Dedan.
(b) Mucatha.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Jomo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who is said to have changed because of the war in Chapter 4?
(a) Boro.
(b) Ngotho.
(c) Kori.
(d) Jomo.

13. Who was fought by the Kenyans in the second Big War?
(a) Mugabe.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Bush.
(d) Hitler.

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

15. What language do the Kikuyu people speak?
(a) The Abyei Kikuyu language.
(b) The Bantu Kikuyu language.
(c) The Azania Kikuyu language.
(d) The Anyanya Bantu language.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 9, "To [Ngotho] Jomo stood for custom and tradition purified by grace of learning and" what (74)?

2. What word in Chapter 6 refers to the Government?

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

4. What does Nyokabi tell Njoroge she will buy him when his father gets paid in the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. 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)?

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