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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. With what white student was Ngũgĩ’s first social exchange?
2. What did teacher Joseph Kariuki introduce students to, which they began to memorize in the hopes of wooing girls?
3. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?
4. What did the boys at Alliance call the girls at the Alliance school for girls?
5. Which sport does Ngũgĩ say was his favorite as both spectator and participant?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Ngũgĩ’s friendship with Kenneth Mbgũa.
2. What events began which Ngũgĩ describes as his spiritual upheaval?
3. What did Ngũgĩ learn happened to his mother while he was at school?
4. In what ways did Edward Carey Francis change the education model of Alliance?
5. What were some of the differences Ngũgĩ notes from when Edward Carey Francis was not on campus to when he returned?
6. Who were the Acrossians and why were they called that?
7. What is the significance of Ngũgĩ’s Alliance uniform when he saw Good Wallace. How did he feel? How did Good Wallace react?
8. What did Ngũgĩ see at the event for Lord Baden Powell that he found most moving?
9. Describe the 1955 amnesty offer for the Mau Mau guerillas.
10. What performance did Ngũgĩ help put on in Limuru and what were the two parts?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a short essay on the use of imagery in In the House of the Interpreter. Consider words like bloodhounds, pear tree, fortress, sanctuary. What do they mean in the context of the story? What feelings do these words evoke? Is it effective? Why or Why Not?
Essay Topic 2
What does Ngũgĩ mean when he says “the immortality of literary creations” (66) in Part II? What author and scenario is he discussing at the time?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the symbolic significance of the Alliance uniform. How did it make Ngũgĩ feel? What did it represent to the outside world? Use examples from the text.
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