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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the name of the man who tells Ngũgĩ where to find his family in Chapter 1?
(a) Charity.
(b) Kenneth.
(c) Mwangi.
(d) Good Wallace.

3. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1942.

4. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?
(a) Tuskegee and Hampton.
(b) Yale and Harvard.
(c) Tuskegee and Harvard.
(d) Tulane and Hampton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What town do many Alliance students go to shop on Saturdays?

2. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?

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

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

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

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