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

2. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?
(a) Women.
(b) Animals.
(c) Goddesses.
(d) Gods.

3. 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) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

4. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Since when does the author state imperialism has affected the lives of even the peasants in the remotest corners of our countries in his Introduction?

2. 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?

3. What does the Gĩkũyũ word "ngurukuhĩ" translate to in English?

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?

5. Who wrote Catching Them Young?

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