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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.

4. What is the author's favorite novel by Joseph Conrad?
(a) Nostromo.
(b) Heart of Darkness.
(c) Lord Jim.
(d) The Secret Agent.

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

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

7. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Frantz Fanon.

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

9. 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.

10. 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) Weep Not, Child.
(d) A Grain of Wheat.

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

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

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

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 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.

15. What metaphor does the author present to describe the differences of perception in Chapter 4, Part I?
(a) The seven rings of the prince.
(b) The seven warriors on the cliff.
(c) The seven snakes and the snake handler.
(d) The seven blind men and the elephant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?

3. What did a very cruel prison superintendent warn Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o against writing?

4. Who does the author refer to as the two most outstanding critical minds that might have made his study of English Literature really meaningful?

5. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?

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