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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. What term used by the author in the Introduction is defined by him as having the effect of annihilating a people's belief in their names, languages, unity, and ultimately, themselves?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Communal restructuring.
(c) Educational restructuring.
(d) A cultural bomb.

2. Who wrote Catching Them Young?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Bob Dixon.

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

4. What novel of the author's did he hope to give a transcript of to Chinua Achebe at the writers' conference described in Chapter 1, Part II?
(a) The River Between.
(b) Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ.
(c) A Grain of Wheat.
(d) Weep Not, Child.

5. When was Things Fall Apart published?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the African novel The Voice?

2. What does the word "axiomatic" mean, as used in Chapter 1, Part I?

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

4. In Chapter 1, Part IV the author states that language as communication has three aspects. The first of these is the language of real life, which he attributes to having been coined by whom?

5. What was the first school that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended?

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