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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46- 56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ngũgĩ say he learned the power of during his volunteer time at Mutonguini?
(a) Service.
(b) The trumpet.
(c) The sun.
(d) The drum.

2. As he embarked on his literary journey, Ngũgĩ found discomfort with the ways which people were depicted?
(a) Women.
(b) Americans.
(c) Englishmen.
(d) Non-English characters.

3. What is the name of Ngũgĩ’s new home village?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Kikuyi.
(c) Kamirithu.
(d) Mau Mau.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The old woman responded to Ngũgĩ by saying, “We are all children of” whom on page 158?

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

3. In Chapter 35, Ngũgĩ describes a memorable scouting experience in which people of all races joined together to celebrate the life of whom?

4. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?

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

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