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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 organization was formed soon after Ghana gained its independence?
(a) African Election Membership.
(b) The African Elected Members Organization.
(c) The Organization of Elected Members of Africa.
(d) Parliament.

2. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) A Tale of High School.
(c) A Tale of Home and School.
(d) A Tale of My Youth.

3. What Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?
(a) King Lear.
(b) A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) Hamlet.

4. What was the name of the music festival Ngũgĩ attended that was started by Alliance alum Henry Kuria?
(a) Coachella.
(b) Alliance Music Festival.
(c) Kiambu.
(d) Kuria Fest.

5. What did Ngũgĩ think might help quiet his spiritual doubts?
(a) Seeing God.
(b) Converting one person.
(c) Hearing God.
(d) Praying more.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the evangelical speaker who so moved Ngũgĩ to accept Jesus?

2. Why were government officials taking fingerprints at Alliance in Chapter 18?

3. What book did the landscape from the scouting event in Chapter 35 inspire?

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

5. Who is the author of In the House of the Interpreter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the things that make the new village feel like the old village when Ngũgĩ returns home for Christmas?

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

3. What words does Ngũgĩ use to describe the school when he returns from break in January 1957?

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

5. After Harold MacMillan replaced Anthony Eden as British Prime Minister, several countries gained their independence. Please list which countries gained their independence and from whom.

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

7. Describe Ngũgĩ’s friendship with Kenneth Mbgũa.

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

9. What is a memoir?

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

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