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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters One through Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reaction did Waiyaki have that was unusual?
(a) He fell asleep.
(b) He passed out.
(c) He laughed.
(d) He cried.

2. What did the ancient seer call white men?
(a) "People with clothes like flowers."
(b) "People from the other world."
(c) "People with milk-skin."
(d) "People with clothes like butterflies."

3. What is the name of the mountain Waiyaki and Chege can see in the distance at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Kerinyaga.
(b) Kulal.
(c) Karenga.
(d) Kilimanjaro.

4. From where did the ancient seer whisper to his son that salvation would come?
(a) God.
(b) Across the ocean.
(c) White man.
(d) The hills.

5. What does Waiyaki think his father is blessing as they walk during Chapter Four?
(a) Their meal.
(b) The river.
(c) The earth.
(d) His son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Demi na Mathathi?

2. What does "tene na tene" mean?

3. How did Waiyaki feel the morning of the ceremony in Chapter Three?

4. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?

5. What kind of animal does Waiyaki sit next to in the thingira at the beginning of Chapter Four?

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