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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did teacher Joseph Kariuki introduce students to, which they began to memorize in the hopes of wooing girls?
(a) Modern pop songs.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Spirituals.
(d) Shakespeare’s sonnets.

2. Who does Ngũgĩ think about while walking home at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) His teachers.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) His friend Kenneth.
(d) His brother Good Wallace.

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

4. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother suggest he do after he told of his ordeal being captured?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Quit school.
(c) Stop coming home between breaks.
(d) Join the Mau Mau fighters.

5. In Chapter 1, what is the one thing left standing where Ngũgĩ’s home used to be?
(a) A pear tree.
(b) A mango tree.
(c) A banana tree.
(d) A fig tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?

2. When did Ngũgĩ begin school at Alliance?

3. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?

4. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?

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

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