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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?
(a) Professor Okara.
(b) Professor Warner.
(c) Professor Diop.
(d) Professor Hegel.

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

4. 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?
(a) Leftist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Materialist.
(d) Objectivist.

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

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

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

8. Who wrote The Five Bandits and Groundless Rumours?
(a) Bob Dixon.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) Kim Chi Ha.

9. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?
(a) 62.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

10. What word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
(a) Indoctrinated.
(b) Corrugated.
(c) Emulsified.
(d) Inculcated.

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

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

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

14. What word from the text refers to the conventional spelling system of a language?
(a) Orthography.
(b) Orinthology.
(c) Lithography.
(d) Epistilography.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the journal in the Gĩkũyũ language that Gakaara wa Wanjaũ established after being released from prison?

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?

3. 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?

4. Who wrote In the Castle of My Skin?

5. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?

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