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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. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Martin Carter.

2. What does the Ituĩka ceremony mark?
(a) The onset of war.
(b) The birth of the first son in a family.
(c) The handing over of power from one generation to another.
(d) The marriage of an elder's son to a colonial daughter.

3. Where did David Diop get his primary education?
(a) Guinea.
(b) The Ivory Coast.
(c) Senegal.
(d) Mauritania.

4. In Chapter 1, Part IV, the author states that "Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and" what (13)?
(a) "A carrier of history."
(b) "A product of necessity."
(c) "A carrier of culture."
(d) "A symbol of unity."

5. What word from the text refers to something relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
(a) Pseudoliteral.
(b) Epistemological.
(c) Orinthogical.
(d) Linguistical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the owners of the Bata shoe factory based?

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?

3. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?

4. In the Kamĩrĩĩthũ rehearsal and production for Ngaahika Ndeenda, the author says perfection was shown to be what?

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

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