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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Jacobo chosen to do after the incident at the strike meeting in Chapter 7?
(a) To have Ngotho sent to a detainment center.
(b) To have Ngotho's family exiled from the village.
(c) To kick Ngotho off his land.
(d) To have Ngotho murdered.

2. How far from home is Njoroge's new school in Chapter 8?
(a) Two miles.
(b) Five miles.
(c) Ten miles.
(d) Three miles.

3. Who is Ngotho's second wife?
(a) Njeri.
(b) Lucia.
(c) Nyokabi.
(d) Nganga.

4. How did Kori injure himself escaping in Chapter 8?
(a) He hurt his neck.
(b) He hurt his arm.
(c) He hurt his ankle.
(d) He hurt his knee.

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

6. Who does Njoroge come home to find crying and in dispute with Ngotho in Chapter 6?
(a) Thingira.
(b) Nyokabi.
(c) Kihii.
(d) Kiarie.

7. What does Nyokabi tell Njoroge she will buy him when his father gets paid in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) A shirt and a pair of shorts.
(b) A calico.
(c) A pair of pants and a sweater.
(d) A pair of pants and a suit jacket.

8. Where did Mwihaki's father learn English?
(a) Siriana.
(b) Kisumu.
(c) Mombasa.
(d) Nairobi.

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

10. What word from the novel refers to a woman's abode?
(a) Nyumba.
(b) Kihii.
(c) Thingira.
(d) Kipanga.

11. Who says of Jomo in Chapter 9, "It knew he would lose. I always said that all white men are the same. His lawyers must have been bribed" (74)?
(a) Isaka.
(b) Nyokabi.
(c) Kori.
(d) Kihii.

12. What does Njoroge recall a young Indian boy giving him, causing his mother to rebuke him, in Chapter 4?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) A shirt.
(c) A candy.
(d) A pair of shoes.

13. Who leads Njoroge to school on his first day in Chapter 2?
(a) Lucia.
(b) Mwihaki.
(c) Isaka.
(d) Memsahib.

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

15. What is the name of God's tree in the creation story related by Ngotho in Chapter 2?
(a) Mukuyu.
(b) Mwihaki.
(c) Kipanga.
(d) Maua.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mwihaki like to do with flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?

2. Where is Karanja from?

3. Who is Suzannah's first child?

4. For whom did the Kenyans fight in the second Big War?

5. What is the local town that is described in Chapter 1?

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