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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 Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Culture Center begin functioning?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1982.

2. By what number was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o called in prison?
(a) K6, 77.
(b) K3, 99.
(c) K4, 51.
(d) K5, 89.

3. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Lions.
(d) Witches.

4. When were Kamĩrĩĩthũ and the other villages around Limuru established?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1940s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?

2. Hausa is the first language of approximately how many people?

3. In what book of the author's did he narrate the fate of the production of Maitũ Njugĩra?

4. How large was the work force of the Bata shoe factory at the time when Ngaahika Ndeenda was produced?

5. Where did Dr. Kimanĩ Gecaũ flee to in 1982?

(see the answer key)

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