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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term from Chapter 1, Part VI refers to a person within a country who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation?
(a) Matador.
(b) Compatriate.
(c) Comprador.
(d) Conquistador.

2. When did Kenya attain independence from Great Britain?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1969.

3. What does the author describe as a constant theme in the stories that he grew up listening to?
(a) Cooperation as the ultimate good in a community.
(b) Children are the product of their parents' actions.
(c) Power lies in the hands of those who seize it.
(d) Marriage is a holy sacrament.

4. The author notes in his Introduction that the study of African realities has been seen for too long in terms of what?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Illiteracy.
(d) War.

5. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?
(a) Lions.
(b) Witches.
(c) Tigers.
(d) Snakes.

6. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Greenland.
(d) The Netherlands.

7. Who wrote Betrayal in the City?
(a) Francis Imbuga.
(b) Obi Wali.
(c) Léopold Sédar Senghor.
(d) Alan Paton.

8. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Hausa.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Bantu.
(d) Ashanti.

9. In the book Facing Mount Kenya, the Ituĩka ceremony is described as lasting how long?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two weeks.

10. The process of production for Ngaahika Ndeenda, from research, writing, auditions, and rehearsals as well as construction of the theater took how much time?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three months.

11. Where did Dr. Kimanĩ Gecaũ flee to in 1982?
(a) The Democratic Republic of Congo.
(b) Algeria.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) Cameroon.

12. When did the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Culture Center begin functioning?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.

13. When did the production of Maitũ Njugĩra begin?
(a) November, 1981.
(b) March, 1977.
(c) July, 1982.
(d) September, 1976.

14. When was the Ituĩka ceremony banned in Kenya?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1942.

15. Who wrote Facing Mount Kenya?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Jomo Kenyatta.
(c) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.
(d) Obi Wali.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kĩmaathi-led armed struggle begin leading to the British colonial regimes suspending all civil liberties?

2. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o begin writing in Gĩkũyũ?

3. On what days of the week did the woman from Kamĩrĩĩthũ visit the author, according to his narrative in Chapter 2, Part I?

4. In the repeated chorus in the scene from Ngaahika Ndeenda that is presented in the text, the lyrics state that problems can be settled in what?

5. When did the Kenya government outlaw Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Center and ban all theater activities in the entire area?

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