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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What essay from the book Writers in Politics does the author describe in Chapter 4, Part III?
(a) "The Struggle for Cultural Freedom."
(b) "Performance of Literature and Power."
(c) "Literature and Society."
(d) "Literature in Production."

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

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

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

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

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

7. What author's characters were identified by a Kenyan student within his village, leading to the belief that English literature was indeed relatable to Africans?
(a) Shakespeare's.
(b) Jane Austen's.
(c) Milton's.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ's.

8. What is the competition set to choose at the feast of thieves and robbers in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
(a) The two most humble of the thieves and robbers.
(b) The two wisest of the thieves and robbers.
(c) The seven cleverest thieves and robbers.
(d) The three most effective of the thieves and robbers.

9. In his analysis of a person's philosophical base in Chapter 4, Part VII, the author asks whether the person's mode of thinking is dialectical or what?
(a) Rational.
(b) Analytical.
(c) Comprehensive.
(d) Metaphysical.

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

11. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

12. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1955.

13. What novel of the author's is comprised of stories within stories in a series of flashbacks?
(a) A Grain of Wheat.
(b) The River Between.
(c) Weep Not, Child.
(d) Petals of Blood.

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

15. 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) Materialist.
(b) Leftist.
(c) Objectivist.
(d) Realist.

Short Answer Questions

1. The development of the treatise on the teaching of African literature in Kenyan schools stated that the teaching of non-African literature in schools should aim to introduce the student to what?

2. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?

3. What metaphor does the author present to describe the differences of perception in Chapter 4, Part I?

4. Who is the author of Out of Africa?

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

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