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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel Mister Johnson?
(a) Bob Dixon.
(b) Nderi wa Riera.
(c) Joyce Cary.
(d) Karen Blixen.

2. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?
(a) The themes developed in the novel.
(b) The symbolism and imagery.
(c) Different narrative techniques.
(d) The lyricism of the narrative.

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

4. During what years was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ detained in prison?
(a) 1952-1962.
(b) 1959-1962.
(c) 1950-1958.
(d) 1955-1962.

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

6. What does the author describe as the ultimate arbiter of form in Chapter 3, Part VI?
(a) Theme.
(b) Content.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Language.

7. What character in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ moves in a matatu taxi from Nairobi to Ilmorog?
(a) Munira.
(b) Nyakinyua.
(c) Abdulla.
(d) Warĩĩnga.

8. Who was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zaire from 1965 to 1997?
(a) Mobutu Sese Seko.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

9. Who wrote In the Castle of My Skin?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) George Lamming.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) Kim Chi Ha.

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

11. What was the literary journal at Makerere University College?
(a) Kĩgũũnda.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Penpoint.
(d) Horn.

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

13. Who is the protagonist in Cry, the Beloved Country?
(a) Nyakinyua.
(b) Nderi wa Riera.
(c) Wanja.
(d) Stephen Kumalo.

14. 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 most humble of the thieves and robbers.
(c) The three most effective of the thieves and robbers.
(d) The two wisest of the thieves and robbers.

15. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Mikhail Bulgakov.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the student literary journal at Ibadan University College?

3. Who wrote The Interpreters?

4. 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?

5. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?

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