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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 language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?
(a) Swahili.
(b) French.
(c) Gĩkũyũ.
(d) Latin.

2. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Vladimir Lenin.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

3. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?
(a) Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon.
(b) Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
(c) Algeria, Libya, and Egype.
(d) Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania.

4. When was the Ituĩka ceremony banned in Kenya?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1919.

5. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Greenland.
(d) The Netherlands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Maitũ Njugĩra" translate to in English?

2. About how many children did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?

3. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o begin writing in Gĩkũyũ?

4. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?

5. The author says in Chapter 1, Part IX, "A writer who tries to communicate the message of revolutionary unity and hope in the languages of the people becomes" what (30)?

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