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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 cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 62.
2. Where was the author working as the Chairman of the Literature Department when he was arrested?
(a) Leeds University.
(b) The University of Nairobi.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) The University of Makerere.
3. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.
4. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Obi Wali.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Chinua Achebe.
5. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Virginia Woolf.
Short Answer Questions
1. What author's characters were identified by a Kenyan student within his village, leading to the belief that English literature was indeed relatable to Africans?
2. What was the name of the journal in the Gĩkũyũ language that Gakaara wa Wanjaũ established after being released from prison?
3. What was the author's fourth novel in English?
4. What essay from the book Writers in Politics does the author describe in Chapter 4, Part III?
5. What novel did the author's headmaster at Alliance High School admonish for introducing sex sequences between whites and blacks in South Africa?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?
2. What does the author remark about Franz Josef Strauss's official visit to the Independent Republic of Togo in Chapter 3, Part VII?
3. When did the great Nairobi Literature Debate begin? How did it begin?
4. How does the author define "fiction language"?
5. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
6. What does the author mean when he refers to Afro-European literature?
7. How was written language largely developed in Africa?
8. What works did the author assign to his students to read just before his arrest? Why?
9. What are the subject and themes in the author's book Homecoming?
10. What does the author remark about Joseph Conrad in regards to narrative perspective?
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