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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1974.

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

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

4. Who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) John Bunyan.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Martin Carter.

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

6. Where was gunpowder invented?
(a) Africa.
(b) Europe.
(c) The Americas.
(d) China.

7. Who wrote the poem "Speech to Danish Working Class Actors on the Art of Observation"?
(a) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Martin Carter.
(d) Frantz Fanon.

8. Who is the trickster that is featured in Hekaya Za Abunuwasi?
(a) Tutuola.
(b) Okara.
(c) Gernudisi.
(d) Abunuwasi.

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

10. What did a very cruel prison superintendent warn Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o against writing?
(a) Novels.
(b) Poems.
(c) Letters.
(d) Memoirs.

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

12. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?
(a) Professor Hegel.
(b) Professor Diop.
(c) Professor Okara.
(d) Professor Warner.

13. 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) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ's.
(c) Jane Austen's.
(d) Milton's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?

2. 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?

3. What is the central backdrop of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?

4. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?

5. Upon what did the author write his novel Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini?

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