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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. With what white student was Ngũgĩ’s first social exchange?
(a) Govinda.
(b) Andrew Brockett.
(c) John Brockett.
(d) Andrew Carson.

2. When Ngũgĩ returned from break in August, who did he find out had been detained?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

3. Which friend did Ngũgĩ bump into and fail to convert in Chapter 35?
(a) Kenneth Wanjai.
(b) E.K.
(c) Igogo.
(d) Kenneth Mbugwa.

4. Whose refusal to drive Ngũgĩ and his friends back to school resulted in the boys being late?
(a) Wanjai’s brother.
(b) Wanjai’s father.
(c) Good Wallace.
(d) Ngũgĩ’s mother.

5. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?
(a) Three Dogs in a Boat.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Pilgrim’s Progress.
(d) Three Men in a Boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?

2. Who was the first President of Kenya?

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

4. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?

5. What does Ngũgĩ do when he finds his family in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the Acrossians and why were they called that?

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

3. Describe Ngũgĩ’s friendship with Kenneth Mbgũa.

4. What did Kenneth and Ngũgĩ decide to do for their village when they met at a scouting event?

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

6. Why are Ngũgĩ, Wanjai and Leonard late getting back from Nairobi Saturday?

7. Describe the 1955 amnesty offer for the Mau Mau guerillas.

8. Describe the significance of the Mugumo tree at the end of Chapter 31.

9. Why does Ngũgĩ refer to Alliance as a sanctuary?

10. What did Ngũgĩ learn happened to his mother while he was at school?

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