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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Ngũgĩ begin school at Alliance?
(a) April, 1950.
(b) October, 1952.
(c) December, 1959.
(d) January, 1955.

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

3. What did Ngũgĩ use as a model for the new debate format at his school?
(a) Parliament.
(b) The classroom.
(c) Shakespeare’s sonnets.
(d) Congress.

4. Who was Ngũgĩ pleasantly surprised to find was the new chief when he went to the military post for his screening?
(a) Fred Mbugua.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) Kenneth Mbugua.

5. Who was the first President of Kenya?
(a) Joseph Kenyatta.
(b) Jonyo Mau Mau.
(c) Jonyo Kenyatta.
(d) Joseph Kariuki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ngũgĩ say “had come to symbolize continuity despite the many changes in my life” (117)?

2. What was Ngũgĩ having doubts about when he began reading Albert Schweitzer?

3. What did Jonyo Kenyatta call Kenya?

4. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?

5. Who replaced Anthony Eden as British Prime Minister?

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