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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Interpreters?
(a) Wole Soyinka.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Kim Chi Ha.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the novel Mister Johnson?

2. 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?

3. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?

4. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?

5. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?

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