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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 does the author say the real aim of colonialism was in Chapter 1, Part V?
(a) To control the people's history.
(b) To control the people's beliefs.
(c) To control the people's wealth.
(d) To control the people's community.

2. The author states in Chapter 1, Part V that economic and political control can never be complete or effective without what?
(a) Agricultural control.
(b) Environmental control.
(c) Physical control.
(d) Mental control.

3. What does the Gĩkũyũ word "ngurukuhĩ" translate to in English?
(a) Man.
(b) Missile.
(c) Horse.
(d) Child.

4. What does the author refer to as being the basis of a people's identity in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Economy.
(b) History.
(c) Family.
(d) Values.

5. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?
(a) Latin.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Swahili.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the author describe as the second aspect of language as culture in Chapter 1, Part IV?

3. Who wrote King Solomon's Mines?

4. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?

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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