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

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

3. What term does the author define in Chapter 1, Part VIII as "literature written by Africans in European languages in the era of imperialism" (27)?
(a) European-African literature.
(b) Neo-African literature.
(c) Afro-European literature.
(d) African Exile literature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many children did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?

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

3. How many wives did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?

4. 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)?

5. When was Caitaani mutharaba-Ini published?

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