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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?
(a) Three Men in a Boat.
(b) Pilgrim’s Progress.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Three Dogs in a Boat.

2. From where did Ngũgĩ return home in April 1955?
(a) Makerere University.
(b) Alliance High School.
(c) Limuru.
(d) Alliance University.

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

4. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance High School?
(a) Encampment.
(b) Sanctuary.
(c) Safe space.
(d) Prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the dorm prefect who wakes the students up with a quote?

2. What was the name of the English teacher who took Ngũgĩ’s class on a tour of a real Englishmen’s house?

3. What is the name of the first full length play Ngũgĩ attended at Alliance?

4. From whom do Kenneth’s Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua promise to protect Ngũgĩ during his first year at Alliance?

5. With whom does Ngũgĩ share the top of the class after exams?

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