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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31 - 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Ngũgĩ say he found refuge at the start of Chapter 43?
(a) His classroom.
(b) The Sunday School chapel.
(c) Books.
(d) His dorm room.

4. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ says that schools in Kenya were separate and what?
(a) Similar.
(b) Unequal.
(c) Far apart.
(d) Equal.

5. What is the name of the special Saturday when students are allowed to leave the school all day?
(a) Nairobi Fest.
(b) Limuru Day.
(c) Kikuyi Saturday.
(d) Nairobi Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the first full length play Ngũgĩ attended at Alliance?

2. Who was the “leader” of Ngũgĩ’s three person cabal?

3. Which friend did Ngũgĩ bump into and fail to convert in Chapter 35?

4. What Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?

5. What school did Ngũgĩ and his friends get a tour of and have tea in Chapter 23?

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