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

2. When did Ngũgĩ begin school at Alliance?
(a) January, 1955.
(b) December, 1959.
(c) April, 1950.
(d) October, 1952.

3. Who was the first President of Kenya?
(a) Joseph Kenyatta.
(b) Joseph Kariuki.
(c) Jonyo Mau Mau.
(d) Jonyo Kenyatta.

4. What was the name of the prison to which Ngũgĩ had to go to receive his final confirmation in Chapter 21?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Kamaruthu.
(c) Tigoni.
(d) Gotini.

5. Which one of Ngũgĩ ‘s family members was arrested just before Christmas?
(a) Charity.
(b) Njoki.
(c) Ngũgĩ‘s mother.
(d) Ngũgĩ.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who unexpectedly visited Ngũgĩ and his brother and mother in the field in Chapter 31?

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

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

5. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance High School?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why and when did the Saturday Evening paper begin and what did Ngũgĩ like about it?

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

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

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

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