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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 metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?
(a) White lion v. Black panther.
(b) White colonists v. Black villager.
(c) White Snow v. Black Ice.
(d) White monolith v. Black monolith.

2. What is the title of Part II?
(a) A Tale of Souls in Conflict.
(b) A Tale of Home and School.
(c) A Tale of Conflicting Souls.
(d) A Tale of My Passport Screening.

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

4. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ recounted an important soccer game in which Alliance won against what team?
(a) Kĩnoo.
(b) Prince of Wales.
(c) Duke.
(d) Caledonians.

5. Which friend did Ngũgĩ bump into and fail to convert in Chapter 35?
(a) E.K.
(b) Kenneth Wanjai.
(c) Igogo.
(d) Kenneth Mbugwa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were government officials taking fingerprints at Alliance in Chapter 18?

2. What was the name of the music festival Ngũgĩ attended that was started by Alliance alum Henry Kuria?

3. Whose resignation from his Conservative prime ministership was the subject of a school assembly in November?

4. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?

5. In Chapter 1, what is the one thing left standing where Ngũgĩ’s home used to be?

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