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

2. What does the author refer to as the result of the broken harmony between the three aspects of language as communication for the colonial child?
(a) Colonial distinction.
(b) Colonial affectation.
(c) Colonial alienation.
(d) Colonial aberration.

3. 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) A cultural bomb.
(b) Communal restructuring.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Educational restructuring.

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

5. What does the author describe as the second aspect of language as culture in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Culture as a reflection of history.
(b) Language in the form of written signs.
(c) Language as a means for production.
(d) An image-forming agent in the mind of a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his Introduction, the author states that the theme of this book is taken from a poem by what Guyanese poet?

2. Who wrote the African novel The Voice?

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

4. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?

5. The author states in his Introduction that he will look at the African realities as affected by the great struggle between two opposed forces in Africa today. These are an imperialist tradition and what?

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