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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Darkness Falls," Chapters 8 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mwihaki like to do with flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) Weave them into necklaces and hair adornments.
(b) Pick them for her mother.
(c) Pick them for her sister.
(d) Pick them and throw them at Njoroge.

2. Who shouts in the end of Chapter 9, "Never! Never! Black people must rise up and fight" (75)?
(a) Kori.
(b) Boro.
(c) Kiarie.
(d) Mwangi.

3. Who is Ngotho's first wife?
(a) Nyokabi.
(b) Njeri.
(c) Juliana.
(d) Lucia.

4. What term from the novel refers to a man's habitation, such as the one belonging to Njoroge's father?
(a) Kipanga.
(b) Nganga.
(c) Thingira.
(d) Kihii.

5. Who is Njoroge's brother who died in the war?
(a) Mwangi.
(b) Boro.
(c) Kori.
(d) Isaka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ngotho pay for his son to become an apprentice to the village carpenter?

2. Who says "Education is the light of Kenya," according to Kamau in Chapter 4 (38)?

3. Njuka is the name that is given to whom, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

4. Who is the male teacher that Njoroge recalls teaching his first lesson in school?

5. Who sits next to Ngotho at the meeting on the first day of the strike?

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