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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 country's government does the author describe as having a Literature Bureau that would not publish an African noel which had any but religious themes and sociological themes free from politics in Chapter 3, Part IV?
(a) Rhodesia.
(b) Rwanda.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Ethiopia.

2. When was Caitaani mutharaba-Ini published?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1978.

3. In what book of the author's did he narrate the fate of the production of Maitũ Njugĩra?
(a) Barrel of a Pen.
(b) Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams.
(c) Homecoming.
(d) Petals of Blood.

4. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?
(a) Latin.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Swahili.
(d) French.

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, Part V as having said, "... the blacks ... are inferior to the whites on the endowments of both body and mind ..." (18)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Kimanĩ Gecaũ flee to in 1982?

2. Where are the owners of the Bata shoe factory based?

3. Who wrote The Five Bandits and Groundless Rumours?

4. What term does the author define in Chapter 1, Part VIII as "literature written by Africans in European languages in the era of imperialism" (27)?

5. Who was the President of Toto from 1967 until 2005?

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