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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. How many years of involvement had Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spent writing literature in Englis when the author began writing in Gĩkũyũ?
(a) 22.
(b) 31.
(c) 13.
(d) 17.

2. When did the Kenya Land and Freedom Army usher in the era of modern guerilla warfare in Africa?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1959.

3. 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) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Sir H. Rider Haggard.

4. In Chapter 1, Part I, the author asserts, "The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to" what (4)?
(a) "A people's disenfranchisement."
(b) "A people's relationship to others."
(c) "A people's notions about literature."
(d) "A people's definition of themselves."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the elitist institution for Africans in colonial Kenya where Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended high school?

2. When was there a declaration of a state of emergency over Kenta that led to all schools being run by the colonial regime?

3. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?

4. 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?

5. The author says in Chapter 1, Part IX, "A writer who tries to communicate the message of revolutionary unity and hope in the languages of the people becomes" what (30)?

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