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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. What did Good Wallace and Kabae bring Ngũgĩ to eat while in prison?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) Bread.
(c) Tea.
(d) Clothes.

2. Who did Ngũgĩ plan to tell first about this acceptance to Makerere?
(a) His mother.
(b) Good Wallace.
(c) Charity.
(d) Kenneth.

3. After Mr. Rifleman lied on the stand, what words of his mother did Ngũgĩ recall?
(a) The Golden Rule.
(b) Love wins.
(c) Truth never dies.
(d) Time heals all wounds.

4. Where was Ngũgĩ headed to when his bus was stopped by police in Chapter 57?
(a) Alliance.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Limuru.
(d) Makerere.

5. What was the 1958 Shakespeare performance at Alliance in Chapter 54?
(a) Midsummer’s Night Dream.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Henry VI.
(d) King Lear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Earlier on the day he was stopped on the bus to Limuru, what did Ngũgĩ purchase with his salary?

2. What did Ngũgĩ equate the passage of time in prison to in Chapter 68?

3. Who was Ngũgĩ’s friend who worked with him on the Christmas pageant in Chapter 53?

4. When the other prisoners from Thĩmbĩgwa told the others Ngũgĩ was from Alliance, they said that colonial police did not want to see Black people what?

5. What did Ngũgĩ’s first challenger as dorm prefect do in the dorm, which was against the rules?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Andrew Brockett and Ngũgĩ agree would reduce racial tensions?

2. What was the “comedy” Ngũgĩ saw in being taken to Kiambu Remand Prison?

3. Describe Ngũgĩ’s first visit to the school library.

4. Who did Ngũgĩ, Joshua, and Nicodemus encounter when they were walking back from Limuru and what did she say?

5. What did the judge say Ngũgĩ was accused of, much to his surprise?

6. What did Ngũgĩ say in reference to his court appearance that foreshadows what happened after the memoir ends?

7. In 1957, Ngũgĩ became dorm prefect. Describe the first time he was challenged by a fellow student.

8. What good news was Ngũgĩ bringing home to Limuru when he was stopped on the bus?

9. What is Ngũgĩ doing at the end of the story?

10. When Good Wallace and Kabae visited him at Thĩmbĩgwa, what did Ngũgĩ remember of his last meeting with Good Wallace?

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