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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (Parts I-IV): "The Language of African Theatre".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Culture and communication are unnecessary.
(b) Culture reflects history and communication carries history.
(c) Culture creates communication, and communication is a means to culture.
(d) Communication creates culture, and culture is a means of communication.

2. When did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ earn the Noma Award for his secret diary he kept while in political detention?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1989.

3. What does "Caitaani mutharaba-Ini" translate to in English?
(a) I Will Marry When I Want.
(b) Devil on the Cross.
(c) A Meeting in the Dark.
(d) Mother Sing for Me.

4. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?
(a) Obi Wali.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.
(d) Peter Brook.

5. Who wrote Facing Mount Kenya?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.
(c) Jomo Kenyatta.
(d) Obi Wali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?

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. On what days of the week did the woman from Kamĩrĩĩthũ visit the author, according to his narrative in Chapter 2, Part I?

4. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o begin writing in Gĩkũyũ?

5. Where did David Diop get his primary education?

(see the answer key)

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