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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first section, which begins in 1955?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) A Tale of Home and School.
(c) A Tale of My Youth.
(d) A Tale of High School.

2. As the focus of school shifted to preparing students for college, local knowledge was replaced by what at Alliance?
(a) Literary education.
(b) Physics.
(c) Biology.
(d) Mathematics.

3. What did Jonyo Kenyatta call Kenya?
(a) A Soul in Conflict.
(b) The Land of Kenyatta.
(c) A Land of Conflict.
(d) The Land of Conflicted Souls.

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

5. What did the boys at Alliance call the girls at the Alliance school for girls?
(a) Alliance ladies.
(b) Over the Meadows.
(c) Far-a-ways.
(d) Acrossians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ngũgĩ was disappointed in much of the literature he read in school because it used which continent as a reference point?

2. Who did Ngũgĩ invite to Nairobi Saturday second semester?

3. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?

4. With whom does Ngũgĩ share the top of the class after exams?

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

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