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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. What does Ngũgĩ say he learned the power of from playing Chess?
2. What is the title of Part II?
3. What did Good Wallace tell Ngũgĩ to do to his uniform when he visited him during break?
4. Who was the first President of Kenya?
5. What Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ngũgĩ see at the event for Lord Baden Powell that he found most moving?
2. Describe the 1955 amnesty offer for the Mau Mau guerillas.
3. Ngũgĩ says that schools were separate and unequal, thus sports were the only way to compare abilities. What does he say the games between Alliance and other all white schools became a metaphor for?
4. What is the significance of Ngũgĩ’s Alliance uniform when he saw Good Wallace. How did he feel? How did Good Wallace react?
5. What are the big changes Ngũgĩ describes at the beginning of Chapter 32?
6. What descriptive words does Ngũgĩ use to show the reader what his home looks like upon his first return?
7. What does Ngũgĩ say he learned about the power of the pawn through Chess?
8. What did Ngũgĩ learn happened to his mother while he was at school?
9. Describe Ngũgĩ’s friendship with Kenneth Mbgũa.
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
David Martin’s ability to speak to Ngũgĩ and have him accept Jesus is an example of a speaker able to convince its audience. What do you think it takes to be an effective speaker and to make an effective argument? Why do you think Martin’s words touched Ngũgĩ at that time in his life?
Essay Topic 2
Write about Ngũgĩ’s literary journey discussed in Chapter 59. What books and authors impacted him and how?
Essay Topic 3
When discussing his seeing Tell Freedom in his teacher, Allan Ogot’s, hands, Ngũgĩ says: “This would become a pattern in my intellectual growth: passing comments and fleeting images, often outside the formal classroom, would leave a lasting, sometimes pivotal mark on my life” (27). What are some of these moments in the text?
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