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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?
(a) His mother and Njoki.
(b) His brothers.
(c) Njoki and Charity.
(d) His mother and Charity.

2. From where did Ngũgĩ hear of his brothers capture in Chapter 26?
(a) Banana Hills.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Makerere.
(d) Limuru.

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

4. When did Ngũgĩ begin school at Alliance?
(a) December, 1959.
(b) April, 1950.
(c) January, 1955.
(d) October, 1952.

5. What metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?
(a) White lion v. Black panther.
(b) White monolith v. Black monolith.
(c) White colonists v. Black villager.
(d) White Snow v. Black Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?

2. What did Ngũgĩ think might help quiet his spiritual doubts?

3. What was the name of the music festival Ngũgĩ attended that was started by Alliance alum Henry Kuria?

4. Who were the British forces hunting down?

5. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?

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