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

2. What was the elitist institution for Africans in colonial Kenya where Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended high school?
(a) The Alliance High School.
(b) The Oxford High School.
(c) The Niflheim High School.
(d) The Ndebele High School.

3. What does the word "axiomatic" mean, as used in Chapter 1, Part I?
(a) Arbitrary.
(b) Mean-spirited.
(c) Subjugating.
(d) Self-evident.

4. 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) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kenya Land and Freedom Army usher in the era of modern guerilla warfare in Africa?

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

3. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IX that "to the comprador-ruling regimes, their real enemy is" what (30)?

4. For how long was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ imprisoned for his writings in Gĩkũyũ?

5. In Chapter 1, Part I, the author asserts, "The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to" what (4)?

(see the answer key)

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