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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. In Chapter 1, Part IV, the author states that "Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and" what (13)?
(a) "A carrier of history."
(b) "A symbol of unity."
(c) "A product of necessity."
(d) "A carrier of culture."

2. What was the author's fourth novel in English?
(a) A Grain of Wheat.
(b) Petals of Blood.
(c) The River Between.
(d) Weep Not, Child.

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

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

5. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?
(a) Ituĩka Book Service.
(b) Wanjaũ Book Service.
(c) Kĩgũũnda Book Service.
(d) Gakaara Book Service.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Things Fall Apart published?

2. What was the approximate population of Kamĩrĩĩthũ in 1975?

3. On what days of the week did the woman from Kamĩrĩĩthũ visit the author, according to his narrative in Chapter 2, Part I?

4. 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)?

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

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