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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. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o begin writing in Gĩkũyũ?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1982.

2. 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 relationship to others."
(b) "A people's disenfranchisement."
(c) "A people's definition of themselves."
(d) "A people's notions about literature."

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

4. What does the word "axiomatic" mean, as used in Chapter 1, Part I?
(a) Mean-spirited.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Subjugating.
(d) Self-evident.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2, Part II that drama has origins in human struggles with what?

2. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?

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)?

4. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?

5. Hausa is the first language of approximately how many people?

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