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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 did Ngũgĩ’s first challenger as dorm prefect do in the dorm, which was against the rules?
(a) He broke the door.
(b) He drank.
(c) He partied all night.
(d) He smoked.

2. Ngũgĩ was disappointed in much of the literature he read in school because it used which continent as a reference point?
(a) Europe.
(b) Asia.
(c) North America.
(d) Africa.

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

4. Which communities does Ngũgĩ say the passports were meant to tighten government control of in Chapter 22?
(a) Embu, Meru, Limuru.
(b) Gĩkuyũ, Mau Mau, and Meru.
(c) Gĩkuyũ, Embu, and Limuru.
(d) Gĩkuyũ, Embu, and Meru.

5. As he embarked on his literary journey, Ngũgĩ found discomfort with the ways which people were depicted?
(a) Americans.
(b) Englishmen.
(c) Non-English characters.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 55, Ngũgĩ studied hard for exams in the hopes of attending which university?

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

3. Government officials screened students at Alliance to ensure no student had pledged allegiance to whom?

4. What did teacher Joseph Kariuki introduce students to, which they began to memorize in the hopes of wooing girls?

5. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?

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