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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 15 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the English teacher who took Ngũgĩ’s class on a tour of a real Englishmen’s house?
(a) P.R. Oades.
(b) Edward Carey Francis.
(c) Principal Smith.
(d) Moses Gathere.

2. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?
(a) Tulane and Hampton.
(b) Tuskegee and Harvard.
(c) Yale and Harvard.
(d) Tuskegee and Hampton.

3. What does Edward Carey Francis read that Ngũgĩ uses to describe his “magic as a reader” (46)?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Three Men in a Boat.
(c) Three Dogs in a Boat.
(d) Pilgrim’s Progress.

4. Who is the author of In the House of the Interpreter?
(a) Kenneth Thiong’o
(b) Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o.
(c) Edward Carey Francis. .
(d) Kenneth Wanjai.

5. Who were the British forces hunting down?
(a) Alliance students.
(b) Escaped prisoners.
(c) White colonists.
(d) Mau Mau guerillas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What town do many Alliance students go to shop on Saturdays?

2. What is the name of the man who tells Ngũgĩ where to find his family in Chapter 1?

3. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?

4. What passage does Edward Carey Francis read in the midst of a downpour during a morning parade?

5. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?

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