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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. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?
2. Who wrote the novel Mister Johnson?
3. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
4. The author asserts in Chapter 3, Part IX that the reception of a work of art is what?
5. What was the author's earliest short story, which was published in the literary journal at Makerere University College?
Short Essay Questions
1. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?
2. How does the author describe the narrative form of A Grain of Wheat?
3. Who is Wole Soyinka and what works has he written?
4. What does the author say about critical reception of literature in Chapter 3, Part IX?
5. How did the author go about obtaining the basic necessities for writing while in prison?
6. How does the author describe his prison cell in Chapter 3, Part I?
7. When did the great Nairobi Literature Debate begin? How did it begin?
8. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
9. What two factors have adversely affected the African novel and its development?
10. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the publication and distribution of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ. How many copies were originally ordered? How well did they sell and who bought them? How was the novel consumed by a largely illiterate audience?
Essay Topic 2
What is referred to by the term mental domination in the context of the book? How is language used in mental domination? Why is mental domination necessary in order to achieve economic and political domination over a people?
Essay Topic 3
What is the African bourgeoisie? How many different threads comprise this social class? What are these threads? Where does the author fall among the classes of Africa?
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