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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. No longer a sanctuary or refuge, what metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe Alliance at the start of Chapter 32?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Window.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) Mirror.

2. For what holiday did Ngũgĩ help the Limuru youth put on a performance?
(a) New Year’s
(b) Easter.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

3. What did Good Wallace tell Ngũgĩ to do to his uniform when he visited him during break?
(a) Sell it.
(b) Treasure it.
(c) Keep it clean.
(d) Burn it.

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

5. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother make for his friends when they visited in Chapter 23?
(a) Pear Jam.
(b) Roasted potatoes.
(c) Roasted yams.
(d) Mashed potatoes.

6. In what year does Chapter 18 begin?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1945.

7. When the Russians launched Sputnik II, what animal was on it that caused outrage?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A dog.
(c) A cat.
(d) A bird.

8. What did Ngũgĩ use as a model for the new debate format at his school?
(a) The classroom.
(b) Parliament.
(c) Shakespeare’s sonnets.
(d) Congress.

9. Who ruled Egypt during the Nationalization of the Suez Canal?
(a) Jonyo Kenyatta.
(b) Colonel Matai.
(c) Dedan Kimathi.
(d) Colonel Nasser.

10. What did Ngũgĩ say “had come to symbolize continuity despite the many changes in my life” (117)?
(a) His mother’s roasted potatoes.
(b) His father’s presence.
(c) His sister’s tea.
(d) His bed.

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

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

13. What word does Ngũgĩ use to describe the force that would try to tell him to slow down during a race?
(a) Villains.
(b) Demons.
(c) Devils.
(d) Turtles.

14. What metaphor does Ngũgĩ use to describe the racial conflict in Kenya?
(a) White monolith v. Black monolith.
(b) White lion v. Black panther.
(c) White Snow v. Black Ice.
(d) White colonists v. Black villager.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose resignation from his Conservative prime ministership was the subject of a school assembly in November?

3. Which teacher does Ngũgĩ describe as the “most constant black presence” at Alliance (61)?

4. What did Jonyo Kenyatta call Kenya?

5. What was the name of the evangelical speaker who so moved Ngũgĩ to accept Jesus?

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