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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many copies of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ did the publishers initially print?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

3. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?
(a) Kĩmaathi Maximum Security Prison.
(b) Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
(c) Ituĩka Maximum Security Prison.
(d) Kĩgũũnda Maximum Security Prison.

4. Who chaired the committee that organized the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
(a) Eddah Gachukia and S. A. Akivaga.
(b) Bob Dixon and Gabriel Okara.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ and Alan Paton.
(d) Birago Diop and Kim Chi Ha.

5. Where was the author working as the Chairman of the Literature Department when he was arrested?
(a) The University of Nairobi.
(b) Leeds University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) The University of Makerere.

6. Who invented mathematical science?
(a) The Arabs.
(b) The Europeans.
(c) The Kikuyu.
(d) The Chinese.

7. In what language was Hekaya Za Abunuwasi written?
(a) Ashanti.
(b) Hausa.
(c) Kiswahili.
(d) Jalaa.

8. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Vladimir Lenin.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

9. What was the author's earliest short story, which was published in the literary journal at Makerere University College?
(a) "The Sand Dune."
(b) "The Fig Tree."
(c) "The Officer."
(d) "The Waving Wheat."

10. 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) Rwanda.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Rhodesia.

11. What was the name of the journal in the Gĩkũyũ language that Gakaara wa Wanjaũ established after being released from prison?
(a) Matigari ma Njiruungi.
(b) Gĩkũyũ Na Mũmbi.
(c) Maitũ Njugĩra.
(d) Kĩgũũnda.

12. 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?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

13. Who was the President of Toto from 1967 until 2005?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

14. The author asserts in Chapter 3, Part IX that the reception of a work of art is what?
(a) Part of the work itself.
(b) Secondary to the work itself.
(c) Not of concern.
(d) Important to understanding audience.

15. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?
(a) 12.
(b) 13.
(c) 16.
(d) 62.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the literary journal at Makerere University College?

2. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?

3. What word from the text refers to the conventional spelling system of a language?

4. Where is Ibadan University located?

5. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?

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