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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Ngũgĩ share the top of the class after exams?
(a) Henry Chasia and Hiram Karani.
(b) Moses Gauthere and Kenneth Wanjai.
(c) Kenneth Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua.
(d) Hiram Karani and Leonard Mbũgua.

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

3. What was the name of the English teacher who took Ngũgĩ’s class on a tour of a real Englishmen’s house?
(a) P.R. Oades.
(b) Moses Gathere.
(c) Edward Carey Francis.
(d) Principal Smith.

4. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) Kenneth Wanjai.
(d) His mother.

5. From whom did Ngũgĩ receive a long letter regarding whether one needed a license to write?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(d) Kenneth Wanjai.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?

3. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?

4. What is the name of the man who tells Ngũgĩ where to find his family in Chapter 1?

5. How did Ngũgĩ get to his school?

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