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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What passage does Edward Carey Francis read in the midst of a downpour during a morning parade?
(a) Pilgrim’s Sacrifice.
(b) Pilgrim’s Progress.
(c) In the House of the Interpreter.
(d) Three Men in a Boat.

4. From whom do Kenneth’s Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua promise to protect Ngũgĩ during his first year at Alliance?
(a) Bullies.
(b) Girls.
(c) The principal.
(d) Mean teachers.

5. Who was the new principal of Alliance in 1940?
(a) Frank Carey.
(b) Edward Carey Francis.
(c) Carey Edwards.
(d) Francis Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?

2. Who does Ngũgĩ run into at a tailor shop in Kikuyi?

3. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?

4. What does Ngũgĩ do when he finds his family in Chapter 1?

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

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