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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 (Parts V-IX): "The Quest for Relevance".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Bertolt Brecht.

2. Who wrote Contes d'Amadou Koumba?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Birago Diop.

3. In his Introduction, the author states that the theme of this book is taken from a poem by what Guyanese poet?
(a) Wole Soyinka.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Martin Carter.

4. Since when does the author state imperialism has affected the lives of even the peasants in the remotest corners of our countries in his Introduction?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1896.

5. Who was the President of Toto from 1967 until 2005?
(a) Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2, Part II that drama has origins in human struggles with what?

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

3. Who wrote the African novel The Voice?

4. Who wrote Betrayal in the City?

5. Who invented mathematical science?

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