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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. What metaphor does the author present to describe the differences of perception in Chapter 4, Part I?
(a) The seven warriors on the cliff.
(b) The seven rings of the prince.
(c) The seven blind men and the elephant.
(d) The seven snakes and the snake handler.

2. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?
(a) Peter Brook.
(b) Obi Wali.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.

3. What was the approximate population of Kamĩrĩĩthũ in 1975?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?
(a) Women.
(b) Goddesses.
(c) Animals.
(d) Gods.

5. Who wrote Catching Them Young?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Bob Dixon.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character in Ngaahika Ndeenda has a long dramatic monologue about the struggle between capital and labor which is described in Chapter 2, Part V?

2. For how long was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ imprisoned for his writings in Gĩkũyũ?

3. The author poses the question in Chapter 1, Part VIII, "What is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do without" what (26)?

4. When does the author describe attending a historic meeting of African writers in Chapter 1, Part II?

5. Upon what did the author write his novel Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini?

(see the answer key)

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