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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (Parts IV-V): "The Language of African Fiction".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say the real aim of colonialism was in Chapter 1, Part V?
(a) To control the people's wealth.
(b) To control the people's beliefs.
(c) To control the people's history.
(d) To control the people's community.

2. The author states in Chapter 1, Part V that economic and political control can never be complete or effective without what?
(a) Agricultural control.
(b) Environmental control.
(c) Physical control.
(d) Mental control.

3. When was This Time Tomorrow written?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1972.

4. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Lions.
(d) Witches.

5. When was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o arrested as a result of the production of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
(a) October 2, 1977.
(b) December 31, 1977.
(c) March 30, 1977.
(d) September 12, 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?

2. How far is Kamĩrĩĩthũ from Nairobi?

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

4. 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)?

5. What was the play The Black Hermit meant to celebrate?

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