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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. What was the first school that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended?
(a) Luganda.
(b) Northern Ndebele.
(c) Khoekhoe.
(d) Kamaandura.
2. What word from the text refers to something relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
(a) Orinthogical.
(b) Linguistical.
(c) Pseudoliteral.
(d) Epistemological.
3. When was the Bata shoe factory established?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1959.
4. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?
(a) Latin.
(b) French.
(c) Gĩkũyũ.
(d) Swahili.
5. What does the word "vacillating" mean as used in Chapter 1, Part VI?
(a) Fluctuating.
(b) De-escalating.
(c) Escalating.
(d) Failing.
Short Answer Questions
1. The chorus in Ngaahika Ndeenda asks where the grave is for whom?
2. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?
3. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?
4. Who was the first Kenyan African Drama and Literature officer that oversaw the Schools Drama Festival?
5. Whose perceptions of Africa does the author described in Chapter 1, Part V as "comparable to a land of childhood still enveloped in the dark mantle of the night as far as the development of self-conscious history was concerned" (18)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are language and communication products of each other?
2. How did the literature of Africa change during the upheaval between imperialism and liberty?
3. What is the basic plot of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
4. How does the author describe the significance of land in Kenya?
5. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?
6. What dramas was the author exposed to during his education?
7. 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?
8. Who were the Mau Mau?
9. Describe the theater that was erected at the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Centre. Where was it located?
10. What are the origins of drama, according to the author in Chapter 2, Part III?
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