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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 book does math teacher Peter Abrahams hold which intrigues Ngũgĩ?
(a) Go Tell it on the Mountain.
(b) Freedom Fighters.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Tell Freedom.

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the music festival Ngũgĩ attended that was started by Alliance alum Henry Kuria?
(a) Alliance Music Festival.
(b) Kiambu.
(c) Kuria Fest.
(d) Coachella.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whom did Ngũgĩ receive a long letter regarding whether one needed a license to write?

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

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

5. How did Ngũgĩ get to his school?

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