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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Darkness Falls," Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the letter at the school threaten if the school is not instantly shut down?
(a) Shooting.
(b) Beheading.
(c) Bombing.
(d) Stabbings.

2. With whom does Njoroge associate Adam from the Bible?
(a) Mumbi.
(b) Kihii.
(c) Gikuyu.
(d) Kipanga.

3. What is Njoroge's first impulse when he learns that he will be able to attend high school in Chapter 13?
(a) To sign up.
(b) To thank God.
(c) To ask his father's permission.
(d) To write to his mother.

4. In Chapter 16, the narrator describes Njoroge as seeing himself as an old man of what age?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 75.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Like whom does Mr. Howlands tell Njoroge he will be castrated in Chapter 15?

2. Where is Karanja from?

3. What color jerseys do the homeguards of Jacobo wear in Chapter 11?

4. How far from home is Njoroge's new school in Chapter 8?

5. Boro tells his brother Kori that he was one of how many who escaped in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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