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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where are the owners of the Bata shoe factory based?
(a) The United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.
2. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IV, "Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's" what (15)?
(a) "Experience in history."
(b) "Perceptions of outsiders."
(c) "Family and bloodline."
(d) "Suffering and domination."
3. What does the author describe as the second aspect of language as culture in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) An image-forming agent in the mind of a child.
(b) Culture as a reflection of history.
(c) Language as a means for production.
(d) Language in the form of written signs.
4. What does the word "axiomatic" mean, as used in Chapter 1, Part I?
(a) Self-evident.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Subjugating.
(d) Mean-spirited.
5. The author poses the question in Chapter 1, Part VIII, "What is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do without" what (26)?
(a) "European languages."
(b) "Western philosophies."
(c) "Western ideologies."
(d) "European culture."
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote Betrayal in the City?
2. In what book of the author's did he narrate the fate of the production of Maitũ Njugĩra?
3. In Chapter 1, Part IV the author states that language as communication has three aspects. The first of these is the language of real life, which he attributes to having been coined by whom?
4. How far is Kamĩrĩĩthũ from Nairobi?
5. The author says in Chapter 1, Part IX, "A writer who tries to communicate the message of revolutionary unity and hope in the languages of the people becomes" what (30)?
Short Essay Questions
1. In his Introduction, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o states that the study of African realities has been too long seen in terms of tribes. What does he mean by this?
2. What was Chinua Achebe's stance on language?
3. What significant event in 1884 determined the fate of the future of Africa?
4. What does the author mean when he refers to the domination of the mental universe of the colonized?
5. What are the main characters anticipating in the opening of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
6. How does the author describe the peasant's relationship to language in Chapter 1, Part VII?
7. What is the basic plot of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
8. What dramas was the author exposed to during his education?
9. What was the Kamĩrĩĩthhũ Community Education and Culture Centre?
10. What were Léopold Sédar Senghor's views on language?
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