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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "Ihii cia mutitu" mean (68)?
(a) Freedom Boys of the Forest.
(b) The church.
(c) The Abyei Liberation Front.
(d) The government.

2. With whom does Njoroge associate Adam from the Bible?
(a) Kipanga.
(b) Mumbi.
(c) Gikuyu.
(d) Kihii.

3. Who is Ngotho's employer's wife who is described as being too thin?
(a) Njeri.
(b) Mwihaki.
(c) Juliana.
(d) Memsahib.

4. Dedan Kimathi is referred to as the leader of what group in Chapter 8?
(a) The African Freedom Army.
(b) Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of Kenya.
(c) The Kenyan Liberation Front.
(d) The Abyei Liberation Front.

5. What oath does the narrator say Ngotho would not take at his son's hand or instruction in Chapter 8?
(a) The Mau Mau oath.
(b) The Anyanya oath.
(c) The Abyei oath.
(d) The Anzaniya oath.

6. What does Mwihaki discover when she rushes home to announced she has passed in school in Chapter 7?
(a) That her father has been murdered.
(b) That her father has been attacked.
(c) That her father has been exiled.
(d) That her father has been promoted.

7. Who is Suzannah's first child?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Peter.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Jason.

8. Who is Njoroge's brother who died in the war?
(a) Boro.
(b) Mwangi.
(c) Isaka.
(d) Kori.

9. When did Jomo Kenyatta die?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1988.

10. According to Karanja's story in Chapter 8, at what time did Dedan Kimathi say he would visit the police station in Nyeri?
(a) 10:30 a.m.
(b) 3:30 p.m.
(c) 9:00 a.m.
(d) 2:10 p.m.

11. What is the verb in the sentence used by the teacher to demonstrate person in Chapter 5?
(a) Stand.
(b) Jump.
(c) Walk.
(d) Talk.

12. Who is the male teacher that Njoroge recalls teaching his first lesson in school?
(a) Boro.
(b) Nganga.
(c) Michael.
(d) Isaka.

13. What is Njoroge listening for when he falls asleep in the end of Chapter 6?
(a) The voice of God.
(b) His mother crying.
(c) The wolf howling.
(d) The voice of his sister.

14. Exactly how much later does the narrator describe the "Interlude" taking place?
(a) Four and a half years later.
(b) Three and a half years later.
(c) One and a half years later.
(d) Two and a half years later.

15. Who is the teacher that teaches Njoroge's class English in Chapter 5?
(a) Isaka.
(b) Kamau.
(c) Mwangi.
(d) Lucia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of God's tree in the creation story related by Ngotho in Chapter 2?

2. What does Njoroge recall a young Indian boy giving him, causing his mother to rebuke him, in Chapter 4?

3. How far from home is Njoroge's new school in Chapter 8?

4. Jacobo is said to be the first black man allowed to grow what crop in the area?

5. Boro tells his brother Kori that he was one of how many who escaped in Chapter 8?

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