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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46- 56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose refusal to drive Ngũgĩ and his friends back to school resulted in the boys being late?
(a) Ngũgĩ’s mother.
(b) Good Wallace.
(c) Wanjai’s brother.
(d) Wanjai’s father.

2. What is the title of Part II?
(a) A Tale of Souls in Conflict.
(b) A Tale of Home and School.
(c) A Tale of My Passport Screening.
(d) A Tale of Conflicting Souls.

3. What did Good Wallace tell Ngũgĩ to do to his uniform when he visited him during break?
(a) Sell it.
(b) Keep it clean.
(c) Treasure it.
(d) Burn it.

4. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance High School?
(a) Safe space.
(b) Prison.
(c) Encampment.
(d) Sanctuary.

5. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe the force that would try to tell him to slow down during a race?
(a) Demons.
(b) Turtles.
(c) Devils.
(d) Villains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ngũgĩ say were equal to white teachers at Alliance?

2. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?

3. What phrase used to describe Ngũgĩ on his Leaving School Certificate surprise him?

4. What was the name of the English teacher who took Ngũgĩ’s class on a tour of a real Englishmen’s house?

5. Which communities does Ngũgĩ say the passports were meant to tighten government control of in Chapter 22?

(see the answer key)

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