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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What first for Ngũgĩ is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 22?
(a) Ngũgĩ’s first summons to the principal’s office.
(b) Ngũgĩ’s first starring role.
(c) Ngũgĩ’s first date.
(d) Ngũgĩ’s first bad grade.

2. 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.

3. What was the punishment for returning to school late in Chapter 23?
(a) Getting a license.
(b) Cleaning the bathrooms.
(c) Cutting the grass.
(d) Writing an extra paper.

4. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother often say the longest nights always end with?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Roasted Potatoes.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Ngũgĩ’s brother being held after his capture?

3. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother believe to have sacred and healing powers?

4. What metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?

5. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ says that schools in Kenya were separate and what?

(see the answer key)

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