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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 61, after being released, the officer summons Ngũgĩ back stating that he did what?

2. What did Ngũgĩ’s mother often say the longest nights always end with?

3. In Ngũgĩ s dream in Chapter 64, where was Ngũgĩ banished to?

4. Where did Ngũgĩ’s first story get published?

5. With what association does Ngũgĩ volunteer after his first volunteer experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ngũgĩ describe Thĩmbĩgwa post?

2. What did Ngũgĩ find in common with Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?

3. What does Ngũgĩ mean when he says that Alliance did not divide Africans across racial lines?

4. How did Ngũgĩ know the Akamba people prior to volunteering to build them a community center?

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

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

7. What do readers know about John Kabae, and why does Ngũgĩ think he might be able to help?

8. What is the “partnership in crime between criminals and crime busters” Ngũgĩ refers to on page 206?

9. On the stand, Ngũgĩ says something from his Alliance days helped him. What is it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Point of View. In what ways does the story being told from Ngũgĩ‘s point of view effect the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the passage of Pilgrim’s Progress read by Edward Carey Francis on page 42. Why do you think he reads this particular passage? What significance does this have to the story and the title?

Essay Topic 3

When discussing his seeing Tell Freedom in his teacher, Allan Ogot’s, hands, Ngũgĩ says: “This would become a pattern in my intellectual growth: passing comments and fleeting images, often outside the formal classroom, would leave a lasting, sometimes pivotal mark on my life” (27). What are some of these moments in the text?

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