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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (Part V): "The Language of African Theatre".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe as the second aspect of language as culture in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Culture as a reflection of history.
(b) An image-forming agent in the mind of a child.
(c) Language as a means for production.
(d) Language in the form of written signs.

2. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, Part V as having said, "... the blacks ... are inferior to the whites on the endowments of both body and mind ..." (18)?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(d) Sir H. Rider Haggard.

3. When did Kenya attain independence from Great Britain?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1969.

4. Where did David Diop get his primary education?
(a) Guinea.
(b) Mauritania.
(c) The Ivory Coast.
(d) Senegal.

5. What does "Maitũ Njugĩra" translate to in English?
(a) Mother Sing for Me.
(b) A Meeting in the Dark.
(c) Devil on the Cross.
(d) I Will Marry When I Want.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?

2. What family is central in Ngaahika Ndeenda?

3. In what book of the author's did he narrate the fate of the production of Maitũ Njugĩra?

4. When did the author submit The River Between to a writing competition by the East African Literature Bureau?

5. The author states in Chapter 2, Part V that "In the opening line of The Black Hermit the peasant mother is made to speak in a poetic language reminiscent in tone of" whom (43)?

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