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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Billy Graham movie was screened at the school?
(a) Souls in Heaven.
(b) Spiritual Conflicts.
(c) Souls in Conflict.
(d) Spirt of Heaven.

2. When Ngũgĩ returned from break in August, who did he find out had been detained?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

3. In Chapter 35, Ngũgĩ describes a memorable scouting experience in which people of all races joined together to celebrate the life of whom?
(a) Jonyo Kenyatta.
(b) Lord Carey Francis.
(c) Lord Baden Powell.
(d) Good Wallace.

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

5. In Chapter 37, what item did Ngũgĩ use as an analogy the first time he participated in a debate?
(a) Scissors.
(b) Paper.
(c) Pen.
(d) Pencil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?

2. Which teacher does Ngũgĩ describe as the “most constant black presence” at Alliance (61)?

3. With what white student was Ngũgĩ’s first social exchange?

4. Who replaced Anthony Eden as British Prime Minister?

5. During an English Lesson, Principal Smith guided students on the use of simple words claiming that who spoke simple English?

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