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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 did the capitalist powers of Europe carve up the continent of Africa into different colonies in the late 1800s?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Paris.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) London.

2. Who wrote Facing Mount Kenya?
(a) Obi Wali.
(b) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.
(c) Jomo Kenyatta.
(d) Alan Paton.

3. Who was the first Kenyan African Drama and Literature officer that oversaw the Schools Drama Festival?
(a) Wasambo Were.
(b) Léopold Sédar Senghor.
(c) Obi Wali.
(d) Alan Paton.

4. What character in Ngaahika Ndeenda has a long dramatic monologue about the struggle between capital and labor which is described in Chapter 2, Part V?
(a) Kĩmaathi.
(b) Kĩgũũnda.
(c) Gĩcaamba.
(d) Maitũ Njugĩra.

5. What does "Caitaani mutharaba-Ini" translate to in English?
(a) Mother Sing for Me.
(b) I Will Marry When I Want.
(c) A Meeting in the Dark.
(d) Devil on the Cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the elitist institution for Africans in colonial Kenya where Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended high school?

2. On what date did Ngaahika Ndeenda open to a paying audience?

3. When did the production of Maitũ Njugĩra begin?

4. What does the word "Maitũ" translate to in English?

5. What novel of the author's did he hope to give a transcript of to Chinua Achebe at the writers' conference described in Chapter 1, Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the Mau Mau?

2. What are the origins of drama, according to the author in Chapter 2, Part III?

3. How does the author describe the significance of land in Kenya?

4. What does the author describe as the effects of one's written language being separated from one's environmental language?

5. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?

6. Who is David Diop and what was his perspective on language?

7. What is the basic plot of Ngaahika Ndeenda?

8. What are the three aspects of language as means of communication?

9. What dramas was the author exposed to during his education?

10. What was the Kamĩrĩĩthhũ Community Education and Culture Centre?

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