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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 63-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the ex-chief about whose courage the older and younger prisoners disagree in Chapter 63?
(a) Mbiyũ.
(b) Kenyatta.
(c) Wallace.
(d) Mbugua.

3. With whom does Ngũgĩ share the top of the class after exams?
(a) Moses Gauthere and Kenneth Wanjai.
(b) Henry Chasia and Hiram Karani.
(c) Kenneth Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua.
(d) Hiram Karani and Leonard Mbũgua.

4. What was the name of the evangelical speaker who so moved Ngũgĩ to accept Jesus?
(a) David Martin.
(b) David Graham.
(c) Billy Martin.
(d) Billy Graham.

5. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) A Tale of High School.
(c) A Tale of My Youth.
(d) A Tale of Home and School.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Ngũgĩ say he found refuge at the start of Chapter 43?

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

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