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

2. What does "Ngaahika Ndeenda" translate to in English?
(a) Devil on the Cross.
(b) I Will Marry When I Want.
(c) A Meeting in the Dark.
(d) Mother Sing for Me.

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

4. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Culture reflects history and communication carries history.
(b) Communication creates culture, and culture is a means of communication.
(c) Culture creates communication, and communication is a means to culture.
(d) Culture and communication are unnecessary.

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) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, Part I, as an effect of colonization, Africa was defined in the languages of Europe. What three languages does he describe?

2. Who wrote Facing Mount Kenya?

3. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IV, "Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's" what (15)?

4. In what book of the author's did he narrate the fate of the production of Maitũ Njugĩra?

5. On what date did Ngaahika Ndeenda open to a paying audience?

(see the answer key)

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