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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 56, when Carey Francis gave Ngũgĩ his certificate, what did he tell Ngũgĩ not to become?
(a) A principal.
(b) A politician.
(c) A Mau Mau.
(d) A police officer.

3. What did Ngũgĩ do when they returned to camp in Chapter 47?
(a) He left.
(b) He prayed.
(c) He hid.
(d) He slept.

4. The letter John gave to Ngũgĩ suggested to him that he may have finally succeeded in doing what?
(a) Passing exams.
(b) Committing a sin.
(c) Converting someone.
(d) Being accepted to university.

5. Who came with Good Wallace to visit Ngũgĩ in prison in Chapter 59?
(a) Charity.
(b) Njoki.
(c) His mother.
(d) Joseph Kabae.

6. What did Ngũgĩ say that Edward Carey Francis' final School Assembly speech represented?
(a) Uncertainty.
(b) Graduation.
(c) Formal eviction from Alliance.
(d) Formal divorce from Alliance.

7. In Chapter 64, as Ngũgĩ was in and out sleep in the prison, where did he dream he was with a cruel overseer?
(a) A plantation.
(b) A prison cell.
(c) A mountain.
(d) A cornfield.

8. On the stand, Ngũgĩ says he feels the power of what?
(a) Imperialism.
(b) The officers.
(c) God.
(d) Telling the truth.

9. Where was Ngũgĩ headed at the end of the book?
(a) Back to prison.
(b) Makerere.
(c) Limuru.
(d) Alliance.

10. Who did Ngũgĩ meet and discuss religion with at a gathering at a fellow teacher’s house in Chapter 67?
(a) Kenneth Mbugua.
(b) Lady Teacher.
(c) David Martin.
(d) Edward Carey Francis.

11. What surprised Ngũgĩ about what his fellow prisoners did in court in Chapter 70?
(a) They plead guilty.
(b) They didn’t show up.
(c) They plead innocent.
(d) They yelled at the officers.

12. 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?
(a) Sad.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Imprisoned.
(d) Educated.

13. After Good Wallace told Ngũgĩ he would go to court on Monday, what was he disappointed to discover Monday was?
(a) The Judge’s Birthday.
(b) A public holiday.
(c) His graduation.
(d) Cleaning Day.

14. In Chapter 55, Ngũgĩ studied hard for exams in the hopes of attending which university?
(a) Makerere.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

15. With what association does Ngũgĩ volunteer after his first volunteer experience?
(a) The Nairobi Youth Hostel Association.
(b) Youth Hostels of America.
(c) The Mutonguini Hostel Association.
(d) The Kenya Youth Hostel Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ngũgĩ and his friends met an old lady on their return home, what did Ngũgĩ tell her about his friends?

2. What did the court do after Ngũgĩ’s testimony?

3. In the story the old man told in Chapter 63, where was the ex-chief banished to?

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

5. What book did Ngũgĩ read that depicted an image of an African woman as evil?

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