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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the carpenter who has been found killed in Chapter 11?
(a) Kiarie.
(b) Boro.
(c) Nganga.
(d) Kihii.

2. Who is the letter on the school purportedly from in Chapter 10?
(a) Kiarie.
(b) Kimathi.
(c) Boro.
(d) Jomo.

3. How is the roof of the office in which Mr. Howlands sits described in Chapter 10?
(a) Blue tile.
(b) Red tile.
(c) Red brick.
(d) Gray tile.

4. As they part ways in Chapter 13, Njoroge feels ashamed of having thought Mwihaki to be what?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Sinister.
(c) Weak.
(d) Frivolous.

5. What does Mwihaki claim to be the aspect that holds her to her homeland in Chapter 18?
(a) Her diplomacy.
(b) Her duty.
(c) Her land.
(d) Her fortune.

6. Who are facing murder charges for the death of Mr. Howlands?
(a) Kiarie and Mwangi.
(b) Kori and Memsahib.
(c) Boro and Kamau.
(d) Kiarie and Lucia.

7. What currency is being used at the dress shop in Chapter 16?
(a) Yen.
(b) Dollars.
(c) Shillings.
(d) Dinar.

8. What did Boro's father find him out to be, according to Ngotho in Chapter 16?
(a) A coward.
(b) A traitor.
(c) A monster.
(d) A useless father.

9. What does Boro do after his father dies in Chapter 16?
(a) He collapses on the floor weeping.
(b) He holds his mother.
(c) He runs from the hut.
(d) He holds his brother.

10. Where did the teacher Isaka go the year before Njoroge finished the first school?
(a) Nyeri.
(b) Nyumba.
(c) Thingira.
(d) Kihii.

11. Whom will Njoroge be taught by at Siriana Secondary School for the first time?
(a) Men.
(b) Black men.
(c) Women.
(d) White men.

12. The narrator states in Chapter 15 of Mr. Howlands, "For Ngotho had become for him a symbol of" what (120)?
(a) "The savages who walked the earth."
(b) "Men who made him ashamed."
(c) "Evil that now stood in his path."
(d) "Good versus evil."

13. What is the English translation of the phrase "Mikono juu" (100)?
(a) "Leave in peace."
(b) "Hello."
(c) "Hands up."
(d) "Who are you?"

14. The narrator notes in Chapter 13, "Somehow the Gikuyu people always saw their deliverance as embodied in" what (104)?
(a) "Submission."
(b) "Education."
(c) "Fighting."
(d) "Jesus."

15. To whom does Ngotho tell Boro to turn his eyes as he dies in Chapter 16?
(a) Murungu and Ruriri.
(b) Kiarie.
(c) Jomo.
(d) His mother and brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Boro declare must be killed in Chapter 12?

2. At what time does everyone have to be indoors as per the curfew order in Chapter 10?

3. How long has it been since the death of Ngotho and Mr. Howlands in Chapter 16?

4. Who is killed by the white military men during the journey to the Christian gathering in Chapter 12?

5. Of the women at the market, the narrator states that Njoroge "did not want to look at them in the face because he thought they would see the dreams of his boyhood and" do what (126)?

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