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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ says that schools in Kenya were separate and what?
(a) Unequal.
(b) Similar.
(c) Far apart.
(d) Equal.

3. What was the name of the evangelical speaker who so moved Ngũgĩ to accept Jesus?
(a) David Graham.
(b) Billy Martin.
(c) David Martin.
(d) Billy Graham.

4. What Billy Graham movie was screened at the school?
(a) Spirt of Heaven.
(b) Souls in Conflict.
(c) Spiritual Conflicts.
(d) Souls in Heaven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose refusal to drive Ngũgĩ and his friends back to school resulted in the boys being late?

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

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

4. What town do many Alliance students go to shop on Saturdays?

5. What metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did they learn of E.K. that gravely disappoints and ultimately disbands the cabal?

2. How does Ngũgĩ describe the homes of the loyal vs. those of the disloyal in Chapter 13?

3. What is a memoir?

4. Describe Ngũgĩ’s feelings about volunteering at Sunday School and the words or phrases he uses to express these feelings?

5. What does Ngũgĩ say he learned about the power of the pawn through Chess?

6. What is the significance of Ngũgĩ’s Alliance uniform when he saw Good Wallace. How did he feel? How did Good Wallace react?

7. In what ways does Ngũgĩ say Alliance used schools of the American South as a model when it first opened?

8. What are the big changes Ngũgĩ describes at the beginning of Chapter 32?

9. Who were the Mau Mau guerillas and for what were they fighting?

10. How did Ngũgĩ “pass” the screening in Limuru?

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