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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. 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)?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

2. Who declared in an article in Transition in 1963 that the acceptance of English and French as having no chance of advancing African literature and culture?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Obi Wali.

3. When did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ earn the Noma Award for his secret diary he kept while in political detention?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1978.

4. When was This Time Tomorrow written?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1945.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did David Diop get his primary education?

2. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?

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

4. In the Kamĩrĩĩthũ rehearsal and production for Ngaahika Ndeenda, the author says perfection was shown to be what?

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, Part V as having said, "... the blacks ... are inferior to the whites on the endowments of both body and mind ..." (18)?

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