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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the campus of Makerere University College located that the author attended a historic meeting of African writers as described in Chapter 1, Part II?
(a) Kampala, Uganda.
(b) London, England.
(c) Cairo, Egypt.
(d) Nairobi, Kenya.

3. When does the author describe attending a historic meeting of African writers in Chapter 1, Part II?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

4. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Bantu.
(b) Ashanti.
(c) Hausa.
(d) Gĩkũyũ.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?

3. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?

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

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