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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. Who declared in an article in Transition in 1963 that the acceptance of English and French as having no chance of advancing African literature and culture?
(a) Obi Wali.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) Martin Carter.

2. What term used by the author in the Introduction is defined by him as having the effect of annihilating a people's belief in their names, languages, unity, and ultimately, themselves?
(a) Segregation.
(b) A cultural bomb.
(c) Educational restructuring.
(d) Communal restructuring.

3. Who wrote the book African Language Literatures that is referred to in Chapter 1, Part VII?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Martin Carter.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Albert Gerard.

4. With whom did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o collaborate in the drafting of the playscript for Ngaahika Ndeenda?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Ngũgĩ wa Miriĩ.
(d) Martin Carter.

5. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer 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?

2. When were Kamĩrĩĩthũ and the other villages around Limuru established?

3. Who was the first Kenyan African Drama and Literature officer that oversaw the Schools Drama Festival?

4. What character in Ngaahika Ndeenda has a long dramatic monologue about the struggle between capital and labor which is described in Chapter 2, Part V?

5. Where did the capitalist powers of Europe carve up the continent of Africa into different colonies in the late 1800s?

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