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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Gikuyu Karinga" mean?
(a) "Gikuyu land forever."
(b) "Education is imperative."
(c) "Never surrender."
(d) "Keep the tribe pure."

2. What did Waiyaki propose be built for the school that was opposed?
(a) Lavatories.
(b) A well.
(c) A garden.
(d) A third building.

3. What does Kinuthia say will be Waiyaki's ruin?
(a) His passion for education.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) His love for Nyambura.
(d) His name.

4. For what sin of his wife's does Joshua beg God's forgiveness?
(a) Her circumcision.
(b) Her failure to give birth to a son.
(c) Her lack of authority with the people of Makuyu.
(d) Her disobedience.

5. On what do Nyambura and Muthoni sit while talking at the river?
(a) The grass.
(b) Water barrels.
(c) Tree stumps.
(d) Boulders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not a skill taught to the children?

2. Who knows Waiyaki was in Joshua's church?

3. What is the name of the mountain Waiyaki and Chege can see in the distance at the end of Chapter Four?

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

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

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