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

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

3. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Ashanti.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Hausa.
(d) Bantu.

4. Who wrote Catching Them Young?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Bob Dixon.

5. 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)?
(a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kenya attain independence from Great Britain?

2. Who wrote King Solomon's Mines?

3. The author notes in his Introduction that the study of African realities has been seen for too long in terms of what?

4. When did the Kenya Land and Freedom Army usher in the era of modern guerilla warfare in Africa?

5. Who wrote Betrayal in the City?

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