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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?
(a) Candy.
(b) Lunch.
(c) New clothes.
(d) A book.

2. What town do many Alliance students go to shop on Saturdays?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Kikuyi.
(c) Kiambu.
(d) Mbgũa.

3. How did Ngũgĩ get to his school?
(a) His parents drove him.
(b) By bus.
(c) Smuggled on a goods train.
(d) Airplane.

4. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) Kenneth Wanjai.
(d) His mother.

5. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?

2. Who does Ngũgĩ think about while walking home at the beginning of the memoir?

3. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance High School?

4. From where did Ngũgĩ return home in April 1955?

5. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?

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