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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which friend did Ngũgĩ bump into and fail to convert in Chapter 35?
(a) Kenneth Mbugwa.
(b) Kenneth Wanjai.
(c) E.K.
(d) Igogo.

2. What was the name Ngũgĩ gave to the officer he met at Tigoni in Chapter 21?
(a) Johnny the Green.
(b) Officer Green.
(c) The Green Giant.
(d) Officer John.

3. For what holiday did Ngũgĩ help the Limuru youth put on a performance?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Year’s
(c) Christmas.
(d) Thanksgiving.

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

5. When Ngũgĩ returned from break in August, who did he find out had been detained?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

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

7. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) His brother has returned.
(b) His sister had a baby
(c) It is nothing but rubble.
(d) His mother has made him a special dinner. .

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

9. What was the AEMO charged with after the statement they put out following the March elections?
(a) Conspiracy.
(b) Defamation.
(c) Murder.
(d) Treason.

10. What passage does Edward Carey Francis read in the midst of a downpour during a morning parade?
(a) In the House of the Interpreter.
(b) Pilgrim’s Progress.
(c) Three Men in a Boat.
(d) Pilgrim’s Sacrifice.

11. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?
(a) A Tale of Home and School.
(b) A Tale of High School.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) A Tale of My Youth.

12. What book did the landscape from the scouting event in Chapter 35 inspire?
(a) The Chanua and Me.
(b) Between Two Rivers.
(c) The Chanua River.
(d) In the River Between.

13. Where would Ngũgĩ be screened by Government officials?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Kikuyu.
(c) Alliance.
(d) Nairobi.

14. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?
(a) His brothers.
(b) Njoki and Charity.
(c) His mother and Charity.
(d) His mother and Njoki.

15. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Alliance.
(d) Makere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the music festival Ngũgĩ attended that was started by Alliance alum Henry Kuria?

2. Which sport does Ngũgĩ say was his favorite as both spectator and participant?

3. Which teacher does Ngũgĩ describe as the “most constant black presence” at Alliance (61)?

4. What did Good Wallace tell Ngũgĩ to do to his uniform when he visited him during break?

5. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?

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