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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 student literary journal at Ibadan University College?
(a) Pen and Ink.
(b) Horn.
(c) Penpoint.
(d) Kĩgũũnda.
2. What is the competition set to choose at the feast of thieves and robbers in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
(a) The three most effective of the thieves and robbers.
(b) The two wisest of the thieves and robbers.
(c) The two most humble of the thieves and robbers.
(d) The seven cleverest thieves and robbers.
3. What Guatemalan poet wrote the poem addressed to apolitical intellectuals that is excerpted in Chapter 4, Part VIII?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Otto Rene Castillo.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
4. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?
(a) Obi Wali.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Chinua Achebe.
5. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1977.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?
2. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?
3. Who is the author of Out of Africa?
4. Who wrote the poem "Speech to Danish Working Class Actors on the Art of Observation"?
5. What novel of the author's is comprised of stories within stories in a series of flashbacks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What about George Lamming's work impressed the author?
2. What is the meaning of the author's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant in Chapter 4, Part I?
3. What does the author remark about Faust in Chapter 3, Part VIII?
4. How does the author describe his prison cell in Chapter 3, Part I?
5. How was written language largely developed in Africa?
6. What were the three broad categories of literature available to African children described by the author in Chapter 4, Part III?
7. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?
8. What two factors have adversely affected the African novel and its development?
9. What criticisms does the author make of Cry, the Beloved Country?
10. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
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