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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Frantz Fanon.

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

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

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

8. In what language is Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ written?
(a) Hausa.
(b) Gĩkũyũ.
(c) Ashanti.
(d) Swahili.

9. 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 symbolism and imagery.
(b) The lyricism of the narrative.
(c) Different narrative techniques.
(d) The themes developed in the novel.

10. 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) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ's.
(b) Shakespeare's.
(c) Jane Austen's.
(d) Milton's.

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

12. 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 two wisest of the thieves and robbers.
(c) The two most humble of the thieves and robbers.
(d) The seven cleverest thieves and robbers.

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

14. Who is the author of Out of Africa?
(a) Karen Blixen.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Bob Dixon.
(d) Joyce Cary.

15. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Bertolt Brecht.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Interpreters?

2. Where was gunpowder invented?

3. Who invented mathematical science?

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

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

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