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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Darkness Falls," Chapters 14 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the answer when the teachers asks of the sound "U-u-u-u-u-u" "What animal says this?" (34)?
(a) A dog.
(b) A chicken.
(c) A cow.
(d) A sheep.

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

3. What is the area in central Kenya called where Njoroge lives in Chapter 1?
(a) Nyanza.
(b) Baringo.
(c) Kikuyuland.
(d) Uasin Gishu.

4. How is the roof of the office in which Mr. Howlands sits described in Chapter 10?
(a) Red brick.
(b) Gray tile.
(c) Blue tile.
(d) Red tile.

5. Mwihaki tells Njoroge in Chapter 13, "When people go away, they tend to" do what (105)?
(a) "Regret their homelands."
(b) "Look back and wish they had never left."
(c) "Forget those that they left behind."
(d) "Grow as individuals and as leaders."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Njoroge realize the European woman was who came to his English class in Chapter 5?

2. Who is the teacher that teaches Njoroge's class English in Chapter 5?

3. Who is Ngotho's first wife?

4. What does Mwihaki discover when she rushes home to announced she has passed in school in Chapter 7?

5. Who says of Jomo in Chapter 9, "It knew he would lose. I always said that all white men are the same. His lawyers must have been bribed" (74)?

(see the answer key)

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