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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 did teacher Joseph Kariuki introduce students to, which they began to memorize in the hopes of wooing girls?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Modern pop songs.
(c) Shakespeare’s sonnets.
(d) Spirituals.

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

3. Who does Ngũgĩ run into at a tailor shop in Kikuyi?
(a) His sister.
(b) Igogo.
(c) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(d) His mother.

4. Where would Ngũgĩ be screened by Government officials?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Alliance.
(d) Kikuyu.

5. Who does Ngũgĩ think about while walking home at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) His brother Good Wallace.
(b) His friend Kenneth.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) His teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did British soldiers capture on October 21, 1956?

2. What image does Ngũgĩ use to describe his fear of British forces?

3. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?

4. Which communities does Ngũgĩ say the passports were meant to tighten government control of in Chapter 22?

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

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