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

2. How many wives did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. 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?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Karl Marx.

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

5. What does the word "axiomatic" mean, as used in Chapter 1, Part I?
(a) Self-evident.
(b) Subjugating.
(c) Mean-spirited.
(d) Arbitrary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?

2. Where did the capitalist powers of Europe carve up the continent of Africa into different colonies in the late 1800s?

3. Who wrote Catching Them Young?

4. 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?

5. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?

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