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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten through Fourteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is not a function of the small building Waiyaki is in at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Store room.
(b) Classroom.
(c) Waiyaki's office.
(d) Staff room.

2. Why do young people visit the river before the rite of circumcision?
(a) To numb their skin.
(b) To wash themselves.
(c) To wet rags for use during the ceremony.
(d) To drink from the river.

3. What does Joshua's house look like?
(a) A round, thatched hut.
(b) A log cabin.
(c) A mud-brick, square structure.
(d) A rectangular building with a tin roof.

4. Where are the circumcisions performed?
(a) Around the main village well.
(b) On the river's banks.
(c) In each initiate's hut.
(d) In the hospital.

5. What does Waiyaki go to get for his father?
(a) A healer from another ridge.
(b) White man's medicine.
(c) A flower.
(d) A shrub.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the first split within the ridge people?

2. What is Waiyaki watching at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?

3. What is the meaning of the river's name?

4. What year is Waiyaki in at the Siriana school?

5. On what night are the social codes relaxed between men and women?

(see the answer key)

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