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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 three colors comprise the flag of Kenya?
(a) Red, yellow, and green.
(b) Black, red, and green.
(c) Black, green, and blue.
(d) Black, yellow, and green.

2. How many wives did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

4. On what date did Ngaahika Ndeenda open to a paying audience?
(a) September 12, 1976.
(b) June 12, 1978.
(c) March 30, 1977.
(d) October 2, 1977.

5. In the repeated chorus in the scene from Ngaahika Ndeenda that is presented in the text, the lyrics state that problems can be settled in what?
(a) Jokes.
(b) Blood.
(c) Love.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?

2. In Ngaahika Ndeenda, Wangeci's monologue describes the Olengurueni women who were driven from their lands around where?

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

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

5. 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)?

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