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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31 - 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose resignation from his Conservative prime ministership was the subject of a school assembly in November?
(a) Allan Ogot.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Joseph Kariuki.
(d) Jonyo Kenyatta.

3. Which friend did Ngũgĩ bump into and fail to convert in Chapter 35?
(a) Kenneth Wanjai.
(b) Kenneth Mbugwa.
(c) E.K.
(d) Igogo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ngũgĩ say he learned the power of from playing Chess?

2. Why were government officials taking fingerprints at Alliance in Chapter 18?

3. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother believe to have sacred and healing powers?

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

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

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