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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. On what date did the Kenya government ban any further performances of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
(a) March 30, 1977.
(b) September 12, 1976.
(c) November 16, 1977.
(d) October 2, 1977.

2. What does "Ngaahika Ndeenda" translate to in English?
(a) I Will Marry When I Want.
(b) Mother Sing for Me.
(c) A Meeting in the Dark.
(d) Devil on the Cross.

3. When was This Time Tomorrow written?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1945.

4. Where is the campus of Makerere University College located that the author attended a historic meeting of African writers as described in Chapter 1, Part II?
(a) Cairo, Egypt.
(b) Kampala, Uganda.
(c) London, England.
(d) Nairobi, Kenya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IV, "Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's" what (15)?

3. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?

4. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?

5. When did the production of Maitũ Njugĩra begin?

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