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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Andrew and Ngũgĩ agree would help reduce racial tensions during their conversion in Chapter 46?
(a) Studying abroad.
(b) Integrated schools.
(c) More social contact between races.
(d) Less social contact between races.

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

3. What did Ngũgĩ say he learned the power of during his volunteer time at Mutonguini?
(a) The sun.
(b) Service.
(c) The drum.
(d) The trumpet.

4. What did Ngũgĩ’s first challenger as dorm prefect do in the dorm, which was against the rules?
(a) He partied all night.
(b) He drank.
(c) He smoked.
(d) He broke the door.

5. After pleading not guilty, what was the prosecution unable to produce in order for proceedings to begin?
(a) Ngũgĩ.
(b) A coherent argument.
(c) A witness.
(d) Money.

6. What wass the new word Ngũgĩ learned, which referred to the end of the world?
(a) Ecclesiastical.
(b) Historical.
(c) Apocalyptic.
(d) Eschatological.

7. Which friend was Ngũgĩ able to speak with and give money to send home to his mother in Chapter 58?
(a) Leonard.
(b) Joseph.
(c) E.K.
(d) Kenneth.

8. Which book, by Booker T. Washington, did Ngũgĩ read that exposed to him connections between Kenya and the Nineteenth Century American South?
(a) Up From Slavery.
(b) How to Win Friends and Influence People.
(c) Slave Stories.
(d) Wuthering Heights.

9. From whom was the letter John the teacher gave to Ngũgĩ in Chapter 73?
(a) Good Wallace.
(b) His mother.
(c) Lady Teacher.
(d) Joseph Kabae.

10. Who did Ngũgĩ plan to tell first about this acceptance to Makerere?
(a) Kenneth.
(b) Charity.
(c) His mother.
(d) Good Wallace.

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

12. What detective writer did Ngũgĩ begin to read and attempt to emulate in Chapter 50?
(a) Edgar Wallace.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Sherlock Holmes.
(d) Allan Paton.

13. In the story the old man told of his time as a freedom fighter, what was he carrying on the bus when it was stopped by police?
(a) A briefcase full of money.
(b) A skull.
(c) A bloody arm.
(d) A gun.

14. In the story the old man told in Chapter 63, where was the ex-chief banished to?
(a) Morocco.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) Marsapit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother often say the longest nights always end with?

2. How many white volunteers were there at Camp Mutonguini with Ngũgĩ?

3. What did Ngũgĩ name the officer who questioned him about why did he not pay taxes?

4. With what association does Ngũgĩ volunteer after his first volunteer experience?

5. What did Good Wallace and Kabae bring Ngũgĩ to eat while in prison?

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