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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. In the repeated chorus in the scene from Ngaahika Ndeenda that is presented in the text, the lyrics state that problems can be settled in what?
(a) Jokes.
(b) War.
(c) Blood.
(d) Love.

2. What was the first school that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended?
(a) Kamaandura.
(b) Northern Ndebele.
(c) Khoekhoe.
(d) Luganda.

3. What does the word "Maitũ" translate to in English?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Bride.

4. Since when does the author state imperialism has affected the lives of even the peasants in the remotest corners of our countries in his Introduction?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1896.

5. When was Things Fall Apart published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?

2. When did Kenya attain independence from Great Britain?

3. What word from the text refers to something relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?

4. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?

5. What term used by the author in the Introduction is defined by him as having the effect of annihilating a people's belief in their names, languages, unity, and ultimately, themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author ask about writers who continue to write in foreign languages in Chapter 1, Part VIII?

2. What role did drama play in pre-colonial Kenyan life?

3. What were Léopold Sédar Senghor's views on language?

4. What are the main characters anticipating in the opening of Ngaahika Ndeenda?

5. Describe the theater that was erected at the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Centre. Where was it located?

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

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

9. What are the three aspects of language as culture?

10. What does the author mean when he refers to the domination of the mental universe of the colonized?

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