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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 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.

2. Who were the British forces hunting down?
(a) Escaped prisoners.
(b) Mau Mau guerillas.
(c) Alliance students.
(d) White colonists.

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

4. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?
(a) Candy.
(b) New clothes.
(c) A book.
(d) Lunch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did Ngũgĩ receive a long letter regarding whether one needed a license to write?

2. What image does Ngũgĩ use to describe his fear of British forces?

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

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

5. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?

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