View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ngũgĩ use as a model for the new debate format at his school?
(a) The classroom.
(b) Parliament.
(c) Congress.
(d) Shakespeare’s sonnets.

2. Who was Ngũgĩ pleasantly surprised to find was the new chief when he went to the military post for his screening?
(a) Fred Mbugua.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) Kenneth Mbugua.

3. No longer a sanctuary or refuge, what metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance at the start of Chapter 32?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Binoculars.
(c) Window.
(d) Mirror.

4. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?
(a) Njoki and Charity.
(b) His brothers.
(c) His mother and Njoki.
(d) His mother and Charity.

5. What university’s opening lead to secondary schools becoming more focused on college prep?
(a) Kenya University.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Makere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What first for Ngũgĩ is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 22?

2. What did Ngũgĩ say “had come to symbolize continuity despite the many changes in my life” (117)?

3. From where did Ngũgĩ return home in April 1955?

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

5. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 244 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample