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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46- 56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the prison to which Ngũgĩ had to go to receive his final confirmation in Chapter 21?
(a) Gotini.
(b) Tigoni.
(c) Limuru.
(d) Kamaruthu.

2. What book did Ngũgĩ read that depicted an image of an African woman as evil?
(a) Cry, the Beloved Country.
(b) Sherlock Holmes.
(c) Up from Slavery.
(d) King Solomon’s Mines.

3. What did Ngũgĩ determine to read when he first saw the school library?
(a) All the books.
(b) None of the books.
(c) Comic Books.
(d) Newspapers.

4. As the focus of school shifted to preparing students for college, local knowledge was replaced by what at Alliance?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Literary education.
(c) Physics.
(d) Biology.

5. What did Ngũgĩ think might help quiet his spiritual doubts?
(a) Converting one person.
(b) Praying more.
(c) Hearing God.
(d) Seeing God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names Ngũgĩ gives to the two European teachers in Chapter 47?

2. What did Ngũgĩ say that Edward Carey Francis' final School Assembly speech represented?

3. What was the name of the newspaper students read aloud each week in the Alliance Dining Hall?

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

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

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