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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Ngũgĩ travel by train to Limuru?
(a) Kenneth Wanjai.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

2. In what year was the Declaration of the state of Emergency in Kenya?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1922.

3. During an English Lesson, Principal Smith guided students on the use of simple words claiming that who spoke simple English?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?
(a) It is nothing but rubble.
(b) His brother has returned.
(c) His mother has made him a special dinner. .
(d) His sister had a baby

5. What town do many Alliance students go to shop on Saturdays?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Mbgũa.
(c) Kikuyi.
(d) Kiambu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ngũgĩ get to his school?

2. What book does math teacher Peter Abrahams hold which intrigues Ngũgĩ?

3. What schools in the American South were Alliance modeled first after?

4. Who is the author of In the House of the Interpreter?

5. From whom do Kenneth’s Wanjai and Leonard Mbũgua promise to protect Ngũgĩ during his first year at Alliance?

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