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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who wrote The Interpreters?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Wole Soyinka.

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

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) Rwanda.
(b) Rhodesia.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Sudan.

10. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Franz Josef Strauss.
(d) Amos Tutuola.

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

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

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

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

15. In his analysis of a person's philosophical base in Chapter 4, Part VII, the author asks whether the person's mode of thinking is dialectical or what?
(a) Comprehensive.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Analytical.
(d) Rational.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What Guatemalan poet wrote the poem addressed to apolitical intellectuals that is excerpted in Chapter 4, Part VIII?

4. Where was the author working as the Chairman of the Literature Department when he was arrested?

5. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?

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