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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 wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Martin Carter.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) John Bunyan.

2. What was the play The Black Hermit meant to celebrate?
(a) Uganda's Independence.
(b) Nigeria's Independence.
(c) Somalia's Independence.
(d) Kenya's Independence.

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

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

5. What is the Kenya Land and Freedom Army otherwise known as?
(a) The Red Army.
(b) The Fante.
(c) The Mau Mau.
(d) The NCL.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Gĩkũyũ word "ngurukuhĩ" translate to in English?

2. When did the production of Maitũ Njugĩra begin?

3. What is the competition set to choose at the feast of thieves and robbers in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?

4. In his Introduction, the author states that the theme of this book is taken from a poem by what Guyanese poet?

5. Where was gunpowder invented?

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