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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?
(a) Alliance.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Makere.
(d) Cambridge.

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

3. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother suggest he do after he told of his ordeal being captured?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Stop coming home between breaks.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Join the Mau Mau fighters.

4. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?
(a) Candy.
(b) New clothes.
(c) Lunch.
(d) A book.

5. From whom did Ngũgĩ receive a long letter regarding whether one needed a license to write?
(a) His brother.
(b) Kenneth Wanjai.
(c) His mother.
(d) Kenneth Mbgũa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Billy Graham movie was screened at the school?

2. When did Ngũgĩ begin school at Alliance?

3. What is the name of the special Saturday when students are allowed to leave the school all day?

4. Whose resignation from his Conservative prime ministership was the subject of a school assembly in November?

5. Who was the first President of Kenya?

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