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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. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Frantz Fanon.
(c) Vladimir Lenin.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

2. What character in Ngaahika Ndeenda has a long dramatic monologue about the struggle between capital and labor which is described in Chapter 2, Part V?
(a) Gĩcaamba.
(b) Kĩmaathi.
(c) Kĩgũũnda.
(d) Maitũ Njugĩra.

3. What does "Caitaani mutharaba-Ini" translate to in English?
(a) I Will Marry When I Want.
(b) A Meeting in the Dark.
(c) Devil on the Cross.
(d) Mother Sing for Me.

4. When did the production of Maitũ Njugĩra begin?
(a) March, 1977.
(b) September, 1976.
(c) July, 1982.
(d) November, 1981.

5. What word from the text refers to something relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
(a) Orinthogical.
(b) Epistemological.
(c) Linguistical.
(d) Pseudoliteral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the peasant and his wife awaiting the arrival of in the opening of Ngaahika Ndeenda?

2. The author states in Chapter 2, Part II that drama has origins in human struggles with what?

3. Who wrote King Solomon's Mines?

4. 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)?

5. What is the Kenya Land and Freedom Army otherwise known as?

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