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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 57- 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the newspaper students read aloud each week in the Alliance Dining Hall?
(a) The Saturday Evening Paper.
(b) The Weekly Update.
(c) Kenya Weekly.
(d) The Saturday Evening Post.

2. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe the force that would try to tell him to slow down during a race?
(a) Turtles.
(b) Demons.
(c) Devils.
(d) Villains.

3. Who does Ngũgĩ say were equal to white teachers at Alliance?
(a) African teachers.
(b) Nobody.
(c) The principal.
(d) Students.

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

5. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Pilgrim’s Progress.
(c) Three Dogs in a Boat.
(d) Three Men in a Boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Billy Graham movie was screened at the school?

2. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?

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

4. When the other prisoners from Thĩmbĩgwa told the others Ngũgĩ was from Alliance, they said that colonial police did not want to see Black people what?

5. From which country did Ghana gain its independence in 1957?

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