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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 (Parts I-IV): "The Quest for Relevance" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IV, "Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's" what (15)?
(a) "Family and bloodline."
(b) "Suffering and domination."
(c) "Experience in history."
(d) "Perceptions of outsiders."

2. What character in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ moves in a matatu taxi from Nairobi to Ilmorog?
(a) Nyakinyua.
(b) Munira.
(c) Abdulla.
(d) Warĩĩnga.

3. Where is Ibadan University located?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Chad.

4. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?
(a) Professor Okara.
(b) Professor Warner.
(c) Professor Hegel.
(d) Professor Diop.

5. When did the Kĩmaathi-led armed struggle begin leading to the British colonial regimes suspending all civil liberties?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1963.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?

2. What is the name of the secret diary that Gakaara wa Wanjaũ kept while in political detention?

3. What does the Gĩkũyũ word "ngurukuhĩ" translate to in English?

4. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?

5. In his Introduction, the author states that the theme of this book is taken from a poem by what Guyanese poet?

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