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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 (Parts V-IX): "The Quest for Relevance".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

2. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Franz Josef Strauss.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Kim Chi Ha.

3. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 62.
(d) 13.

4. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.

5. In Chapter 1, Part IV, the author states that "Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and" what (13)?
(a) "A carrier of culture."
(b) "A symbol of unity."
(c) "A carrier of history."
(d) "A product of necessity."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Caitaani mutharaba-Ini published?

2. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?

3. When was Caitaani Mutharabaini published?

4. Along with what other two lecturers did the author present a rejection of the primacy of English literature and cultures at Nairobi University?

5. What does the Gĩkũyũ word "ngurukuhĩ" translate to in English?

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