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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 Master and Margarita?
(a) Mikhail Bulgakov.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

2. The development of the treatise on the teaching of African literature in Kenyan schools stated that the teaching of non-African literature in schools should aim to introduce the student to what?
(a) The world context of the neo-colonial age.
(b) The world context of the European experience.
(c) The world context of the North American experience.
(d) The world context of the black experience.

3. What is the competition set to choose at the feast of thieves and robbers in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
(a) The two wisest of the thieves and robbers.
(b) The two most humble of the thieves and robbers.
(c) The seven cleverest thieves and robbers.
(d) The three most effective of the thieves and robbers.

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

5. When was there a declaration of a state of emergency over Kenta that led to all schools being run by the colonial regime?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1, Part V that economic and political control can never be complete or effective without what?

2. When was the Ituĩka ceremony banned in Kenya?

3. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?

4. Who wrote In the Castle of My Skin?

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

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