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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the old saying quoted near the end of Chapter One, what is not for strangers?
(a) Sharing the tribe's disagreements.
(b) The oilskin of the house.
(c) The coming-of-age ceremonies.
(d) Fruit from the sacred grove.

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

3. What does Waiyaki wish he could hold close to him?
(a) The memory of his father.
(b) The moon.
(c) The river.
(d) His sister's spirit.

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

5. Who was the great warrior who killed a lion by himself as a young man?
(a) Mugo wa Kibiro.
(b) Kamiri.
(c) Murungu.
(d) Wachiori.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of "tiitheru"?

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

3. What does Nyambura see as a bad omen?

4. What is a Kiama?

5. What killed Chege's first two wives?

(see the answer key)

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