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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were government officials taking fingerprints at Alliance in Chapter 18?
(a) To arrest students.
(b) To see who is Mau Mau.
(c) Nobody knows.
(d) For passports.

2. What detective writer did Ngũgĩ begin to read and attempt to emulate in Chapter 50?
(a) Edgar Wallace.
(b) Allan Paton.
(c) Sherlock Holmes.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

4. What organization was formed soon after Ghana gained its independence?
(a) The Organization of Elected Members of Africa.
(b) The African Elected Members Organization.
(c) African Election Membership.
(d) Parliament.

5. Which book, by Booker T. Washington, did Ngũgĩ read that exposed to him connections between Kenya and the Nineteenth Century American South?
(a) Up From Slavery.
(b) Slave Stories.
(c) How to Win Friends and Influence People.
(d) Wuthering Heights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the evangelical speaker who so moved Ngũgĩ to accept Jesus?

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

3. What school did Ngũgĩ and his friends get a tour of and have tea in Chapter 23?

4. What does Ngũgĩ say are still crouched, waiting for their time to pounce at the end of Chapter 56?

5. Who ruled Egypt during the Nationalization of the Suez Canal?

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