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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is it said in Chapter Seventeen that one admired in Joshua?
(a) His gentility.
(b) His strength.
(c) His fidelity.
(d) His compassion.

3. Who was the one person Waiyaki felt he'd been able to be emotionally close to?
(a) Reverend Livingstone.
(b) His father.
(c) His young sister.
(d) Kinuthia.

4. Which of these is not a reason people came to the meeting at the school?
(a) To see the famous Marioshoni school.
(b) To see the Teacher.
(c) To become a teacher.
(d) To hear the progress reports on their children.

5. Who does Muthoni say she sees as she is dying?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Nyambura.
(c) Murungu.
(d) Jesus.

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

7. Which of these is not a skill taught to the children?
(a) Reading.
(b) Foreign language.
(c) Scientific inquiry.
(d) Writing.

8. What kind of disease does Chege have?
(a) Lung.
(b) Heart.
(c) Skin.
(d) Stomach.

9. What shape does Waiyaki see in his mind?
(a) A fire.
(b) A school building.
(c) A woman.
(d) A Mugumo tree.

10. What gives Nyambura peace?
(a) The river.
(b) Singing hymns.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Cooking.

11. What do many Gikuyu people see as a sign of a good teacher?
(a) Hearing the teacher yell at the students.
(b) The beating of students.
(c) Long school days.
(d) The arrival of real books in the village.

12. With whom is Waiyaki talking when Nyambura passes them?
(a) Kamau.
(b) Kinuthia.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Kabonyi.

13. To what Bible character does Joshua compare Muthoni?
(a) Lot's wife.
(b) Mary Magdalene.
(c) Delilah.
(d) Sarah.

14. Which of these is not an argument made against Waiyaki's plans?
(a) The children weren't really learning.
(b) A smaller-than-usual expected harvest.
(c) Waiyaki's youth.
(d) The new taxes being imposed.

15. Where is Muthoni taken at the end of Chapter Ten?
(a) To the river to be washed.
(b) Her father's house.
(c) Siriana Hospital.
(d) Nairobi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Reverend Livingstone been at Siriana?

2. Who tells Muthoni's family about her illness?

3. Who has become the leader of the hills following Chege's death?

4. Which of these is not a function of the small building Waiyaki is in at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?

5. Which of these men is not a teacher at the new school?

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