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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. In Chapter 1, Part IV, the author states that "Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and" what (13)?
(a) "A product of necessity."
(b) "A carrier of history."
(c) "A symbol of unity."
(d) "A carrier of culture."

2. 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)?
(a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(b) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

3. 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?
(a) A realist tradition.
(b) A socialist tradition.
(c) A resistance tradition.
(d) An arbitrarary tradition.

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, Part I, as an effect of colonization, Africa was defined in the languages of Europe. What three languages does he describe?
(a) French, Spanish, and German.
(b) Dutch, French, and Portuguese.
(c) English, French, and Spanish.
(d) English, French, and Portuguese.

5. 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 alienation.
(b) Colonial distinction.
(c) Colonial affectation.
(d) Colonial aberration.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the author describe as a constant theme in the stories that he grew up listening to?

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

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)?

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