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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom do Kenneth’s Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua promise to protect Ngũgĩ during his first year at Alliance?
(a) Girls.
(b) Mean teachers.
(c) The principal.
(d) Bullies.

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

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

4. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) His sister had a baby
(b) His mother has made him a special dinner. .
(c) His brother has returned.
(d) It is nothing but rubble.

5. Who does Ngũgĩ run into at a tailor shop in Kikuyi?
(a) His sister.
(b) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(c) Igogo.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Ngũgĩ’s brother being held after his capture?

3. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?

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

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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