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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Ngũgĩ invite to Nairobi Saturday second semester?
(a) Leonard Mbugua.
(b) Joseph Kariuki.
(c) Edward Carey Francis.
(d) Johana Mwalwala.

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

3. In Chapter 35, Ngũgĩ describes a memorable scouting experience in which people of all races joined together to celebrate the life of whom?
(a) Jonyo Kenyatta.
(b) Lord Baden Powell.
(c) Lord Carey Francis.
(d) Good Wallace.

4. What was the AEMO charged with after the statement they put out following the March elections?
(a) Defamation.
(b) Conspiracy.
(c) Murder.
(d) Treason.

5. With what white student was Ngũgĩ’s first social exchange?
(a) Andrew Carson.
(b) Andrew Brockett.
(c) Govinda.
(d) John Brockett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the newspaper students read aloud each week in the Alliance Dining Hall?

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

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

4. What did Ngũgĩ discover when he arrived at his home in the beginning of the memoir?

5. Who was the first President of Kenya?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kenneth and Ngũgĩ decide to do for their village when they met at a scouting event?

2. What words does Ngũgĩ use to describe the school when he returns from break in January 1957?

3. Who were the Mau Mau guerillas and for what were they fighting?

4. What are the big changes Ngũgĩ describes at the beginning of Chapter 32?

5. What events began which Ngũgĩ describes as his spiritual upheaval?

6. In what ways did Edward Carey Francis change the education model of Alliance?

7. Why and when did the Saturday Evening paper begin and what did Ngũgĩ like about it?

8. What descriptive words does Ngũgĩ use to show the reader what his home looks like upon his first return?

9. Ngũgĩ says that schools were separate and unequal, thus sports were the only way to compare abilities. What does he say the games between Alliance and other all white schools became a metaphor for?

10. Describe the 1955 amnesty offer for the Mau Mau guerillas.

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