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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ngũgĩ do when he finds his family in Chapter 1?
(a) He takes off his uniform and helps them build their new home.
(b) He urges them to flee..
(c) He makes them dinner.
(d) He brags about his school

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?

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

3. Who were the British forces hunting down?

4. Who does Ngũgĩ think about while walking home at the beginning of the memoir?

5. What is the name of Ngũgĩ’s new home village?

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