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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 63-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ngũgĩ say that Edward Carey Francis' final School Assembly speech represented?
(a) Formal eviction from Alliance.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Graduation.
(d) Formal divorce from Alliance.

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

3. What does Ngũgĩ say are still crouched, waiting for their time to pounce at the end of Chapter 56?
(a) The colonists.
(b) The Guerillas.
(c) The officers.
(d) The hounds.

4. What did the prisoners find out about Ngũgĩ in Chapter 60?
(a) He attended Alliance.
(b) He plays chess.
(c) His brother is a Mau Mau.
(d) He is from Limuru.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did the landscape from the scouting event in Chapter 35 inspire?

2. What was the subject of the fight between The Bishop and The General?

3. In court in Chapter 70, what fellow teacher did Ngũgĩ meet from Kahũguĩni?

4. Who does Ngũgĩ run into at a tailor shop in Kikuyi?

5. What did Ngũgĩ equate the passage of time in prison to in Chapter 68?

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