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

2. In his Introduction, the author states that the theme of this book is taken from a poem by what Guyanese poet?
(a) Wole Soyinka.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Martin Carter.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

3. What does the author describe as a constant theme in the stories that he grew up listening to?
(a) Power lies in the hands of those who seize it.
(b) Marriage is a holy sacrament.
(c) Cooperation as the ultimate good in a community.
(d) Children are the product of their parents' actions.

4. 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 socialist tradition.
(b) An arbitrarary tradition.
(c) A realist tradition.
(d) A resistance tradition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe as the second aspect of language as culture in Chapter 1, Part IV?

2. The author poses the question in Chapter 1, Part VIII, "What is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do without" what (26)?

3. Who wrote the African novel The Voice?

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

5. When was Caitaani mutharaba-Ini published?

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