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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

2. Who wrote the poem "Speech to Danish Working Class Actors on the Art of Observation"?
(a) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Martin Carter.
(d) Frantz Fanon.

3. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Mikhail Bulgakov.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

4. The author asserts in his conclusion in Chapter 4, Part IX that what this book on the politics of language in African literature is really about is what?
(a) The communication of struggle throughout history.
(b) National, democratic, and human liberation.
(c) The salvation of the African schoolchild.
(d) The unity of different languages and cultures.

5. What is the central backdrop of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
(a) The journey.
(b) The fall of the hero.
(c) The act of heroism.
(d) The relationship bewteen fathers and sons.

6. What novel did the author's headmaster at Alliance High School admonish for introducing sex sequences between whites and blacks in South Africa?
(a) Too Late the Phalarope.
(b) A Meeting in the Dark.
(c) Devil on the Cross.
(d) Mother Sing for Me.

7. Who does the author attribute with changing language all the time?
(a) The petty-bourgeoisie.
(b) The upper and royal classes.
(c) The peasantry and working class.
(d) The intellectual elite and educators.

8. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?
(a) Professor Diop.
(b) Professor Warner.
(c) Professor Hegel.
(d) Professor Okara.

9. The development of the treatise on the teaching of African literature in Kenyan schools stated that the teaching of non-African literature in schools should aim to introduce the student to what?
(a) The world context of the European experience.
(b) The world context of the black experience.
(c) The world context of the neo-colonial age.
(d) The world context of the North American experience.

10. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?
(a) Kĩgũũnda Book Service.
(b) Wanjaũ Book Service.
(c) Ituĩka Book Service.
(d) Gakaara Book Service.

11. What country's government does the author describe as having a Literature Bureau that would not publish an African noel which had any but religious themes and sociological themes free from politics in Chapter 3, Part IV?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Rhodesia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Ethiopia.

12. 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) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

13. What novel of the author's is comprised of stories within stories in a series of flashbacks?
(a) A Grain of Wheat.
(b) Petals of Blood.
(c) Weep Not, Child.
(d) The River Between.

14. When was Caitaani Mutharabaini published?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1985.

15. In what language is Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ written?
(a) Swahili.
(b) Ashanti.
(c) Gĩkũyũ.
(d) Hausa.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?

2. Who chaired the committee that organized the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?

3. Who wrote The Interpreters?

4. Who wrote the novel Mister Johnson?

5. Who is the trickster that is featured in Hekaya Za Abunuwasi?

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