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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what did the author write his novel Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini?
(a) Toilet paper.
(b) Store receipts.
(c) Notebook paper.
(d) His cell walls.

2. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?
(a) Hausa.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Swahili.
(d) Jalaa.

3. What was the literary journal at Makerere University College?
(a) Kĩgũũnda.
(b) Penpoint.
(c) Horn.
(d) Linguistics.

4. What was the student literary journal at Ibadan University College?
(a) Pen and Ink.
(b) Penpoint.
(c) Horn.
(d) Kĩgũũnda.

5. What Guatemalan poet wrote the poem addressed to apolitical intellectuals that is excerpted in Chapter 4, Part VIII?
(a) Otto Rene Castillo.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

6. What word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
(a) Indoctrinated.
(b) Inculcated.
(c) Emulsified.
(d) Corrugated.

7. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?
(a) The themes developed in the novel.
(b) Different narrative techniques.
(c) The symbolism and imagery.
(d) The lyricism of the narrative.

8. Who does the author attribute with changing language all the time?
(a) The intellectual elite and educators.
(b) The upper and royal classes.
(c) The peasantry and working class.
(d) The petty-bourgeoisie.

9. Makerere University College, Ibadam University College, and the Ghana University College were all overseas colleges under the umbrella of what institution?
(a) The University of London.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) The King's College.
(d) The University of Leeds.

10. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?
(a) Franz Josef Strauss.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Kim Chi Ha.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

11. What character in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ moves in a matatu taxi from Nairobi to Ilmorog?
(a) Abdulla.
(b) Warĩĩnga.
(c) Nyakinyua.
(d) Munira.

12. What is the central backdrop of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
(a) The fall of the hero.
(b) The act of heroism.
(c) The journey.
(d) The relationship bewteen fathers and sons.

13. In the author's analysis of the philosophical base of a person's perspective in Chapter 4, Part VII, he asks whether a person's standpoint is idealist or what?
(a) Realist.
(b) Objectivist.
(c) Leftist.
(d) Materialist.

14. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?
(a) Obi Wali.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

15. Along with what other two lecturers did the author present a rejection of the primacy of English literature and cultures at Nairobi University?
(a) Owuor Anyumba and Taban Lo Liyong.
(b) Amos Tutuola and Gabriel Okara.
(c) Karen Blixen and Kim Chi Ha.
(d) Chinua Achebe and Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zaire from 1965 to 1997?

2. Who was the head of the English Department at Nairobi University in 1968?

3. What did a very cruel prison superintendent warn Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o against writing?

4. Who is the trickster that is featured in Hekaya Za Abunuwasi?

5. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?

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