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

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

3. What is the name of the first full length play Ngũgĩ attended at Alliance?
(a) Maisha ni Kiambu.
(b) Maisha ni Nguva.
(c) Maisha ni Nani.
(d) Maisha ni Nini.

4. What was the name Ngũgĩ gave to the officer he met at Tigoni in Chapter 21?
(a) Johnny the Green.
(b) Officer Green.
(c) Officer John.
(d) The Green Giant.

5. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ngũgĩ’s friend let go and Ngũgĩ was made to stay captive in Chapter 24?

2. Where was Ngũgĩ’s brother being held after his capture?

3. What did Good Wallace tell Ngũgĩ to do to his uniform when he visited him during break?

4. No longer a sanctuary or refuge, what metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance at the start of Chapter 32?

5. For what holiday did Ngũgĩ help the Limuru youth put on a performance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events began which Ngũgĩ describes as his spiritual upheaval?

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

3. What does Ngũgĩ unsuccessfully attempt to do as part of his spiritual journey, which E.K. seems to do with great success?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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