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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jonyo Kenyatta call Kenya?
(a) The Land of Conflicted Souls.
(b) The Land of Kenyatta.
(c) A Soul in Conflict.
(d) A Land of Conflict.

2. Ngũgĩ was disappointed in much of the literature he read in school because it used which continent as a reference point?
(a) Asia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) North America.

3. Who were the British forces hunting down?
(a) White colonists.
(b) Alliance students.
(c) Escaped prisoners.
(d) Mau Mau guerillas.

4. What metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?
(a) White Snow v. Black Ice.
(b) White colonists v. Black villager.
(c) White lion v. Black panther.
(d) White monolith v. Black monolith.

5. Who was the new principal of Alliance in 1940?
(a) Frank Carey.
(b) Francis Edwards.
(c) Carey Edwards.
(d) Edward Carey Francis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose resignation from his Conservative prime ministership was the subject of a school assembly in November?

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

3. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?

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

5. What was the name of the English teacher who took Ngũgĩ’s class on a tour of a real Englishmen’s house?

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