View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What town do many Alliance students go to shop on Saturdays?
(a) Kikuyi.
(b) Mbgũa.
(c) Kiambu.
(d) Limuru.

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

3. When Ngũgĩ and his friends met an old lady on their return home, what did Ngũgĩ tell her about his friends?
(a) They were Luo.
(b) They were Mtai.
(c) They were from Alliance.
(d) They were students.

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

5. Who did Ngũgĩ’s friend Kimani want to talk about constantly?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Dale Carnegie.
(c) Kenneth.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the prison to which Ngũgĩ had to go to receive his final confirmation in Chapter 21?

2. What did the boys at Alliance call the girls at the Alliance school for girls?

3. What book does math teacher Peter Abrahams hold which intrigues Ngũgĩ?

4. When Ngũgĩ returned from break in August, who did he find out had been detained?

5. What phrase used to describe Ngũgĩ on his Leaving School Certificate surprise him?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 235 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample