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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 language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Hausa.
(b) Ashanti.
(c) Bantu.
(d) Gĩkũyũ.
2. In his Introduction, the author states that the theme of this book is taken from a poem by what Guyanese poet?
(a) Wole Soyinka.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Martin Carter.
3. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?
(a) Algeria, Libya, and Egype.
(b) Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon.
(c) Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
(d) Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania.
4. About how many children did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?
(a) 16.
(b) 22.
(c) 13.
(d) 28.
5. Who wrote King Solomon's Mines?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(c) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(d) Martin Carter.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the word "Maitũ" translate to in English?
2. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IX that "to the comprador-ruling regimes, their real enemy is" what (30)?
3. When was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o arrested as a result of the production of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
4. On what days of the week did the woman from Kamĩrĩĩthũ visit the author, according to his narrative in Chapter 2, Part I?
5. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the main characters anticipating in the opening of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
2. What are the three aspects of language as culture?
3. How does the author describe Kamĩrĩĩthũ? Where is it located? How many people live there?
4. What significant event in 1884 determined the fate of the future of Africa?
5. What dramas was the author exposed to during his education?
6. How does the author describe the peasant's relationship to language in Chapter 1, Part VII?
7. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?
8. What are the two main strands of the petty-bourgeoisie in Africa that the author describes in Chapter 1, Part VI?
9. What role did song and dance have in the original production of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
10. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o cease writing in English? What were his first works in Gĩkũyũ?
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