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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ngũgĩ run into at a tailor shop in Kikuyi?
(a) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(b) Igogo.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

2. Why were government officials taking fingerprints at Alliance in Chapter 18?
(a) Nobody knows.
(b) To see who is Mau Mau.
(c) For passports.
(d) To arrest students.

3. From whom did Ngũgĩ receive a long letter regarding whether one needed a license to write?
(a) His mother.
(b) Kenneth Wanjai.
(c) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(d) His brother.

4. Who did Ngũgĩ invite to Nairobi Saturday second semester?
(a) Leonard Mbugua.
(b) Joseph Kariuki.
(c) Edward Carey Francis.
(d) Johana Mwalwala.

5. Who is the author of In the House of the Interpreter?
(a) Kenneth Wanjai.
(b) Kenneth Thiong’o
(c) Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o.
(d) Edward Carey Francis. .

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Billy Graham movie was screened at the school?

3. What was the name Ngũgĩ gave to the officer he met at Tigoni in Chapter 21?

4. Which one of Ngũgĩ ‘s family members was arrested just before Christmas?

5. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance High School?

(see the answer key)

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