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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 is the name of the one other volunteer with Ngũgĩ in Chapter 47?
(a) Govinda.
(b) Igogo.
(c) Igor.
(d) Giovani.
2. What book did Ngũgĩ read that depicted an image of an African woman as evil?
(a) King Solomon’s Mines.
(b) Cry, the Beloved Country.
(c) Up from Slavery.
(d) Sherlock Holmes.
3. Which Emily Bronte book introduced Ngũgĩ to a different way of storytelling?
(a) Weathering Hills.
(b) Wuthering Heights.
(c) The Winds of Yorkshire.
(d) Limuru Breeze.
4. What did the prisoners find out about Ngũgĩ in Chapter 60?
(a) His brother is a Mau Mau.
(b) He plays chess.
(c) He is from Limuru.
(d) He attended Alliance.
5. What post are Ngũgĩ and the other captives taken to first in Chapter 60?
(a) Gauthiere.
(b) Kamarithu.
(c) Kiambu.
(d) Thĩmbĩgwa.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Ngũgĩ do when they returned to camp in Chapter 47?
2. Which book, by Booker T. Washington, did Ngũgĩ read that exposed to him connections between Kenya and the Nineteenth Century American South?
3. In Chapter 62, Ngũgĩ was disturbed by the “partnership in crime between criminals and” whom (206)?
4. In Chapter 61, after being released, the officer summons Ngũgĩ back stating that he did what?
5. What did Ngũgĩ name the officer who questioned him about why did he not pay taxes?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ngũgĩ say in reference to his court appearance that foreshadows what happened after the memoir ends?
2. How does Ngũgĩ describe the manner in which the inmates describe their crimes?
3. What did Ngũgĩ find in common with Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?
4. What is the “partnership in crime between criminals and crime busters” Ngũgĩ refers to on page 206?
5. What did the judge say Ngũgĩ was accused of, much to his surprise?
6. Describe Ngũgĩ’s first visit to the school library.
7. On the stand, Ngũgĩ says something from his Alliance days helped him. What is it?
8. What do Andrew Brockett and Ngũgĩ agree would reduce racial tensions?
9. How did Ngũgĩ’s conversation with Lady Teacher help him with his own spiritual doubts?
10. In 1957, Ngũgĩ became dorm prefect. Describe the first time he was challenged by a fellow student.
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