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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (Part V): "The Language of African Theatre".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 2, Part V that "In the opening line of The Black Hermit the peasant mother is made to speak in a poetic language reminiscent in tone of" whom (43)?
(a) Byron.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

4. What dance is despicted in the scene from Ngaahika Ndeenda that is presented in Chapter 2, Part V?
(a) The Moribayasa dance.
(b) The Aduma dance.
(c) The Kpanlogo dance.
(d) The Mwomboko dance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the African novel The Voice?

2. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IX that "to the comprador-ruling regimes, their real enemy is" what (30)?

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

4. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?

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

(see the answer key)

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