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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 Jonyo Kenyatta call Kenya?
(a) The Land of Conflicted Souls.
(b) A Land of Conflict.
(c) The Land of Kenyatta.
(d) A Soul in Conflict.

2. What was the first book Ngũgĩ read that he says spoke to his Black experience?
(a) Up from Slavery.
(b) Cry, the Beloved Country.
(c) King Solomon’s Mines.
(d) Sherlock Holmes stories.

3. As the focus of school shifted to preparing students for college, local knowledge was replaced by what at Alliance?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Biology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Literary education.

4. How did Ngũgĩ get to his school?
(a) By bus.
(b) Airplane.
(c) His parents drove him.
(d) Smuggled on a goods train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sport does Ngũgĩ say was his favorite as both spectator and participant?

2. What university’s opening lead to secondary schools becoming more focused on college prep?

3. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?

4. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?

5. Who was the “leader” of Ngũgĩ’s three person cabal?

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