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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purchase restores Ngũgĩ’s pride in Kikuyi?
(a) Lunch.
(b) New clothes.
(c) Candy.
(d) A book.

2. In Chapter 45, Ngũgĩ says that schools in Kenya were separate and what?
(a) Far apart.
(b) Similar.
(c) Equal.
(d) Unequal.

3. What was the name of the newspaper students read aloud each week in the Alliance Dining Hall?
(a) Kenya Weekly.
(b) The Saturday Evening Paper.
(c) The Weekly Update.
(d) The Saturday Evening Post.

4. What Shakespearean play did they perform in Chapter 40 which Ngũgĩ says showed him the magic of theater?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) King Lear.
(c) A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
(d) Hamlet.

5. From whom did Ngũgĩ receive a long letter regarding whether one needed a license to write?
(a) Kenneth Mbgũa.
(b) Kenneth Wanjai.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

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

7. What is the name of the dorm prefect who wakes the students up with a quote?
(a) Moses Gathere.
(b) Moses Griffin.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) P.R. Oades.

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

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

10. From which country did Ghana gain its independence in 1957?
(a) Italy.
(b) Britain.
(c) France.
(d) The United States.

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

12. Who did British soldiers capture on October 21, 1956?
(a) Jonyo Kenyatta.
(b) Kimathi Dedo.
(c) Dedan Kamathu.
(d) Dedan Kimathi.

13. The opening of which college in 1948 meant that secondary schools began to shift their focus on preparing students for college?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Alliance.
(d) Makere.

14. In what annual performance did Ngũgĩ land the role of foot soldier?
(a) Henry IV, Part I.
(b) Henry IV, Part IX.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Henry VII.

15. 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 unexpectedly visited Ngũgĩ and his brother and mother in the field in Chapter 31?

2. What was the AEMO charged with after the statement they put out following the March elections?

3. Government officials screened students at Alliance to ensure no student had pledged allegiance to whom?

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

5. What was the name of the prison to which Ngũgĩ had to go to receive his final confirmation in Chapter 21?

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