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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ngũgĩ do when he finds his family in Chapter 1?
(a) He urges them to flee..
(b) He takes off his uniform and helps them build their new home.
(c) He brags about his school
(d) He makes them dinner.

2. Why were government officials taking fingerprints at Alliance in Chapter 18?
(a) To arrest students.
(b) For passports.
(c) To see who is Mau Mau.
(d) Nobody knows.

3. What is the name of the special Saturday when students are allowed to leave the school all day?
(a) Nairobi Saturday.
(b) Limuru Day.
(c) Nairobi Fest.
(d) Kikuyi Saturday.

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

5. What is the title of Part II?
(a) A Tale of My Passport Screening.
(b) A Tale of Souls in Conflict.
(c) A Tale of Conflicting Souls.
(d) A Tale of Home and School.

6. Who does Ngũgĩ run into at a tailor shop in Kikuyi?
(a) His mother.
(b) Igogo.
(c) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(d) His sister.

7. From where did Ngũgĩ hear of his brothers capture in Chapter 26?
(a) Banana Hills.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Limuru.
(d) Makerere.

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

9. What passage does Edward Carey Francis read in the midst of a downpour during a morning parade?
(a) Pilgrim’s Progress.
(b) Three Men in a Boat.
(c) Pilgrim’s Sacrifice.
(d) In the House of the Interpreter.

10. From whom do Kenneth’s Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua promise to protect Ngũgĩ during his first year at Alliance?
(a) Bullies.
(b) Girls.
(c) The principal.
(d) Mean teachers.

11. Who was the new principal of Alliance in 1940?
(a) Frank Carey.
(b) Edward Carey Francis.
(c) Carey Edwards.
(d) Francis Edwards.

12. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ recounted an important soccer game in which Alliance won against what team?
(a) Kĩnoo.
(b) Duke.
(c) Caledonians.
(d) Prince of Wales.

13. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Makere.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Alliance.

14. What does Ngũgĩ say he learned the power of from playing Chess?
(a) Knights.
(b) The pawn.
(c) Bishops.
(d) King.

15. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?
(a) Tuskegee and Hampton.
(b) Tuskegee and Harvard.
(c) Tulane and Hampton.
(d) Yale and Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ngũgĩ was disappointed in much of the literature he read in school because it used which continent as a reference point?

2. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?

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

4. What Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?

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

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