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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Ngaahika Ndeenda, Wangeci's monologue describes the Olengurueni women who were driven from their lands around where?
(a) Eskista.
(b) Yatta.
(c) Aduma.
(d) Nakuru.

2. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?
(a) Animals.
(b) Goddesses.
(c) Gods.
(d) Women.

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

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

5. The author poses the question in Chapter 1, Part VIII, "What is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do without" what (26)?
(a) "Western philosophies."
(b) "Western ideologies."
(c) "European languages."
(d) "European culture."

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

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

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

9. When was The Black Hermit first produced?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

10. What does the Gĩkũyũ word "ngurukuhĩ" translate to in English?
(a) Missile.
(b) Child.
(c) Horse.
(d) Man.

11. In Chapter 1, Part IV the author states that language as communication has three aspects. The first of these is the language of real life, which he attributes to having been coined by whom?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Karl Marx.

12. What does the author refer to as being the basis of a people's identity in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Family.
(b) Economy.
(c) History.
(d) Values.

13. What family is central in Ngaahika Ndeenda?
(a) The Mĩriĩ family.
(b) The Kĩgũũnda family.
(c) The Kĩmaathi family.
(d) The Achebe family.

14. 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) Mental control.
(c) Environmental control.
(d) Physical control.

15. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?
(a) Obi Wali.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the book African Language Literatures that is referred to in Chapter 1, Part VII?

3. What three colors comprise the flag of Kenya?

4. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?

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

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