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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. Who unexpectedly visited Ngũgĩ and his brother and mother in the field in Chapter 31?
(a) Allan Ogot.
(b) Edward Carey Francis.
(c) Joseph Kariuki.
(d) His father.

2. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1932.

3. What book did the landscape from the scouting event in Chapter 35 inspire?
(a) The Chanua and Me.
(b) The Chanua River.
(c) In the River Between.
(d) Between Two Rivers.

4. What first for Ngũgĩ is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 22?
(a) Ngũgĩ’s first bad grade.
(b) Ngũgĩ’s first starring role.
(c) Ngũgĩ’s first summons to the principal’s office.
(d) Ngũgĩ’s first date.

5. As the focus of school shifted to preparing students for college, local knowledge was replaced by what at Alliance?
(a) Literary education.
(b) Physics.
(c) Biology.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Ngũgĩ’s family members worked at European owned tea estates?

2. What did teacher Joseph Kariuki introduce students to, which they began to memorize in the hopes of wooing girls?

3. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother believe to have sacred and healing powers?

4. Who was the new principal of Alliance in 1940?

5. From where did Ngũgĩ return home in April 1955?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the root of the fear that “haunted” the first semester of Ngũgĩ’s second year at Alliance?

4. What is a memoir?

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

6. What did Ngũgĩ see at the event for Lord Baden Powell that he found most moving?

7. What descriptive words does Ngũgĩ use to show the reader what his home looks like upon his first return?

8. Why is Charity arrested? What is she accused of doing? Does Ngũgĩ think she did it? Why or why not?

9. In what ways did Edward Carey Francis change the education model of Alliance?

10. What performance did Ngũgĩ help put on in Limuru and what were the two parts?

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