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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 (Parts VI-IX): "The Language of African Literature" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hausa is the first language of approximately how many people?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 44 million.
(d) 36 million.

2. When was there a declaration of a state of emergency over Kenta that led to all schools being run by the colonial regime?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

3. When did the author submit The River Between to a writing competition by the East African Literature Bureau?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1961.

4. 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)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

5. Who wrote Contes d'Amadou Koumba?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?

2. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?

3. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?

4. How many wives did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?

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

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