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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. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?
(a) Gĩkũyũ.
(b) Hausa.
(c) Swahili.
(d) Jalaa.

2. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?
(a) Kĩmaathi Maximum Security Prison.
(b) Ituĩka Maximum Security Prison.
(c) Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
(d) Kĩgũũnda Maximum Security Prison.

3. The author says in Chapter 1, Part IX, "A writer who tries to communicate the message of revolutionary unity and hope in the languages of the people becomes" what (30)?
(a) "A counterintelligent adversary."
(b) "A sickness."
(c) "A subversive character."
(d) "A powerful enemy."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Maitũ Njugĩra" translate to in English?

2. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?

3. What does the Ituĩka ceremony mark?

4. Where did David Diop get his primary education?

5. Whose perceptions of Africa does the author described in Chapter 1, Part V as "comparable to a land of childhood still enveloped in the dark mantle of the night as far as the development of self-conscious history was concerned" (18)?

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