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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 (Parts VI-IX): "The Language of African Literature" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote King Solomon's Mines?
(a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(b) Martin Carter.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

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

3. What does the author refer to as being the basis of a people's identity in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Family.
(b) History.
(c) Economy.
(d) Values.

4. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Ashanti.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Bantu.
(d) Hausa.

5. 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 symbol of unity."
(b) "A product of necessity."
(c) "A carrier of history."
(d) "A carrier of culture."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first school that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended?

2. What does "Maitũ Njugĩra" translate to in English?

3. Where did David Diop get his primary education?

4. 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?

5. What novel of the author's did he hope to give a transcript of to Chinua Achebe at the writers' conference described in Chapter 1, Part II?

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