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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. For how long was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ imprisoned for his writings in Gĩkũyũ?
(a) 13 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 6 years.

2. When did the Kĩmaathi-led armed struggle begin leading to the British colonial regimes suspending all civil liberties?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1955.

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

4. Where did Dr. Kimanĩ Gecaũ flee to in 1982?
(a) Zimbabwe.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Algeria.
(d) The Democratic Republic of Congo.

5. In what language is Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ written?
(a) Ashanti.
(b) Hausa.
(c) Gĩkũyũ.
(d) Swahili.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Ngaahika Ndeenda" translate to in English?

2. The process of production for Ngaahika Ndeenda, from research, writing, auditions, and rehearsals as well as construction of the theater took how much time?

3. 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)?

4. 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?

5. What character in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ moves in a matatu taxi from Nairobi to Ilmorog?

(see the answer key)

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