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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. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1975.

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

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

4. About how many children did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?
(a) 22.
(b) 16.
(c) 28.
(d) 13.

5. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?
(a) Lions.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Witches.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. When does the author describe attending a historic meeting of African writers in Chapter 1, Part II?

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

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

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