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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. How is the weather described on a January morning in Chapter 12?
(a) Hot.
(b) Cold.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Rainy.

2. What does Njoroge recall a young Indian boy giving him, causing his mother to rebuke him, in Chapter 4?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A candy.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) A shirt.

3. Who is said to have been arrested in the "Interlude"?
(a) Jomo.
(b) Kipanga.
(c) Dedan.
(d) Mucatha.

4. 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)?
(a) Isaka.
(b) Kihii.
(c) Kori.
(d) Nyokabi.

5. Who does Njoroge come home to find crying and in dispute with Ngotho in Chapter 6?
(a) Thingira.
(b) Kihii.
(c) Kiarie.
(d) Nyokabi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Jomo Kenyatta serve as Kenya's Prime Minister?

3. How did Kori injure himself escaping in Chapter 8?

4. In her letter to Njoroge in Chapter 14, Mwihaki tells him that in their home village, there is not so much a fear of death as a fear of what (112)?

5. Who is Suzannah's first child?

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