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

2. What do the Gikuyu people see as the white man's "magic"?
(a) The new train.
(b) Education.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Modern weapons.

3. What do the majority of the houses in the village look like?
(a) Log cabins.
(b) Round, thatched huts.
(c) Rectangular buildings with tin roofs.
(d) Mud-brick, square structures.

4. Where does Waiyaki speak to Muthoni?
(a) In the dark trees.
(b) During the pre-initiation feast.
(c) In the dance circle.
(d) In his father's hut.

5. How long has Reverend Livingstone been at Siriana?
(a) Twenty-five years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Twenty-two years.
(d) Twelve years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the relative Muthoni thinks will help her live?

2. What does Waiyaki think his father is blessing as they walk during Chapter Four?

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

4. Where does Chege send his son?

5. What is the name of the Creator who made the first people of the tribe?

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