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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. What performance troupe first performed The Trial of Dedan Kimathi?
(a) The Ibadan Drama Group Festac 76.
(b) Ghana’s Concert Party theatre.
(c) The Nairobi National Theatre Group.
(d) The Kenya Festac 77 Drama Group.

2. What does the author refer to as the result of the broken harmony between the three aspects of language as communication for the colonial child?
(a) Colonial aberration.
(b) Colonial alienation.
(c) Colonial distinction.
(d) Colonial affectation.

3. For how long was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ imprisoned for his writings in Gĩkũyũ?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 13 years.
(d) 6 years.

4. 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) Maitũ Njugĩra.
(b) Kĩgũũnda.
(c) Gĩcaamba.
(d) Kĩmaathi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book African Language Literatures that is referred to in Chapter 1, Part VII?

2. When did Kenya attain independence from Great Britain?

3. The author states in Chapter 1, Part V that economic and political control can never be complete or effective without what?

4. When was Caitaani Mutharabaini published?

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

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