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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 was the wall made of that stood at the back of the stage at Kamĩrĩĩthũ?
(a) Mesh cloth.
(b) Stucco.
(c) Bamboo.
(d) Mud.

2. What does "Ngaahika Ndeenda" translate to in English?
(a) Devil on the Cross.
(b) Mother Sing for Me.
(c) A Meeting in the Dark.
(d) I Will Marry When I Want.

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

4. What term from Chapter 1, Part VI refers to a person within a country who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation?
(a) Matador.
(b) Conquistador.
(c) Compatriate.
(d) Comprador.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of involvement had Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spent writing literature in Englis when the author began writing in Gĩkũyũ?

2. 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)?

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

4. Who invented mathematical science?

5. The author states in Chapter 2, Part V that "In the opening line of The Black Hermit the peasant mother is made to speak in a poetic language reminiscent in tone of" whom (43)?

(see the answer key)

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