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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 Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Henry IV.

2. What did Ngũgĩ name the officer who questioned him about why did he not pay taxes?
(a) Johnny College.
(b) Johnny the Red.
(c) Officer Red.
(d) Heath Hockey.

3. What part of his dream does Ngũgĩ relate to the performance at Kahũgĩnĩ school?
(a) The cruel overseer.
(b) The plantation.
(c) The spirituals.
(d) The bloody arm.

4. What book does math teacher Peter Abrahams hold which intrigues Ngũgĩ?
(a) Go Tell it on the Mountain.
(b) Freedom Fighters.
(c) Tell Freedom.
(d) The Bible.

5. During the fight between The Bishop and The General, Ngũgĩ had a vision of a man of God holding what?
(a) His hand.
(b) The sun.
(c) A huge Bible.
(d) A cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What detective writer did Ngũgĩ begin to read and attempt to emulate in Chapter 50?

2. Who did Ngũgĩ invite to Nairobi Saturday second semester?

3. Which Emily Bronte book introduced Ngũgĩ to a different way of storytelling?

4. In Ngũgĩ s dream in Chapter 64, where was Ngũgĩ banished to?

5. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?

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