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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author asserts in his conclusion in Chapter 4, Part IX that what this book on the politics of language in African literature is really about is what?
(a) National, democratic, and human liberation.
(b) The salvation of the African schoolchild.
(c) The unity of different languages and cultures.
(d) The communication of struggle throughout history.

3. What was the author's fourth novel in English?
(a) The River Between.
(b) Weep Not, Child.
(c) A Grain of Wheat.
(d) Petals of Blood.

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

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

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

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

8. Who does the author refer to as the two most outstanding critical minds that might have made his study of English Literature really meaningful?
(a) Gabriel Okara and Birago Diop.
(b) Arnold Kettle and Raymond Williams.
(c) Martin Carter and Kim Chi Ha.
(d) Amos Tutuola and Frantz Fanon.

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

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

11. What novel did the author's headmaster at Alliance High School admonish for introducing sex sequences between whites and blacks in South Africa?
(a) Devil on the Cross.
(b) Too Late the Phalarope.
(c) A Meeting in the Dark.
(d) Mother Sing for Me.

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

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

14. Where is Ibadan University located?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Chad.
(d) Sudan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what language is Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ written?

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. Who is the author of Out of Africa?

4. Along with what other two lecturers did the author present a rejection of the primacy of English literature and cultures at Nairobi University?

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

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