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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (Parts I-III): "The Language of African Fiction" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Kĩmaathi-led armed struggle begin leading to the British colonial regimes suspending all civil liberties?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1955.

2. The author states in Chapter 2, Part II that drama has origins in human struggles with what?
(a) Oppressors.
(b) Nature and others.
(c) Outsiders.
(d) Itself.

3. What term from Chapter 1, Part VI refers to a person within a country who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation?
(a) Conquistador.
(b) Matador.
(c) Comprador.
(d) Compatriate.

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

5. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?
(a) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Obi Wali.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?

2. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?

3. When did the Kenya government outlaw Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Center and ban all theater activities in the entire area?

4. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?

5. Where was gunpowder invented?

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