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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 replaced Anthony Eden as British Prime Minister?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Harold MacMillan.
(c) Winston MacMillan.
(d) Harold Churchill.

2. What was the name of the newspaper students read aloud each week in the Alliance Dining Hall?
(a) The Saturday Evening Paper.
(b) The Weekly Update.
(c) The Saturday Evening Post.
(d) Kenya Weekly.

3. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ says that schools in Kenya were separate and what?
(a) Far apart.
(b) Similar.
(c) Unequal.
(d) Equal.

4. What is the name of the special Saturday when students are allowed to leave the school all day?
(a) Nairobi Fest.
(b) Kikuyi Saturday.
(c) Limuru Day.
(d) Nairobi Saturday.

5. What Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Henry IV.
(c) King Lear.
(d) A Midsummer’s Night Dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came with Good Wallace to visit Ngũgĩ in prison in Chapter 59?

2. What post are Ngũgĩ and the other captives taken to first in Chapter 60?

3. Who unexpectedly visited Ngũgĩ and his brother and mother in the field in Chapter 31?

4. Which communities does Ngũgĩ say the passports were meant to tighten government control of in Chapter 22?

5. From where did Ngũgĩ hear of his brothers capture in Chapter 26?

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