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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 57- 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Ngũgĩ say he found refuge at the start of Chapter 43?
(a) Books.
(b) His dorm room.
(c) His classroom.
(d) The Sunday School chapel.

3. As the focus of school shifted to preparing students for college, local knowledge was replaced by what at Alliance?
(a) Biology.
(b) Physics.
(c) Literary education.
(d) Mathematics.

4. In regards to the play, what did Ngũgĩ say the “political theater onstage was mimicking” (96)?
(a) Life in the village.
(b) The politics of the school.
(c) Dorm life.
(d) The real theater of politics outside school gates.

5. Whose resignation from his Conservative prime ministership was the subject of a school assembly in November?
(a) Jonyo Kenyatta.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Allan Ogot.
(d) Joseph Kariuki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the AEMO charged with after the statement they put out following the March elections?

2. In Chapter 62, Ngũgĩ was disturbed by the “partnership in crime between criminals and” whom (206)?

3. What first for Ngũgĩ is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 22?

4. Which one of Ngũgĩ ‘s family members was arrested just before Christmas?

5. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?

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