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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Muthoni want to do in Chapter Six?
(a) Be circumcised.
(b) Marry a white man.
(c) Join the church.
(d) See the world outside of Kikuyu.

3. Where does the relative Muthoni thinks will help her live?
(a) Kameno ridge.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Siriana.
(d) In their village.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chege send his son?

2. How many sons does Chege have?

3. To whom are sacrifices made before the initiation season?

4. Who were Gikuyu and Mumbi?

5. Who reveals Muthoni's secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nyambura leave the village at the end of Chapter Eight?

2. How are the two ridges, Kameno and Makuyu, described?

3. What are Sundays typically like for Joshua?

4. What is Joshua's first response when he discovers Muthoni is missing?

5. What do Waiyaki and his father talk about on their walk to the sacred grove?

6. What is the significance of Kerinyaga?

7. How does Waiyaki feel on the morning of his second birth ceremony?

8. Why are the two boys fighting in Chapter Two?

9. Why is Nyambura so upset by Muthoni's confession by the river?

10. How does Joshua feel about the rite of circumcision?

(see the answer keys)

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