View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe as the ultimate arbiter of form in Chapter 3, Part VI?
(a) Content.
(b) Language.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Theme.

2. What novel of the author's is comprised of stories within stories in a series of flashbacks?
(a) Weep Not, Child.
(b) Petals of Blood.
(c) A Grain of Wheat.
(d) The River Between.

3. In the author's analysis of the philosophical base of a person's perspective in Chapter 4, Part VII, he asks whether a person's standpoint is idealist or what?
(a) Realist.
(b) Leftist.
(c) Materialist.
(d) Objectivist.

4. What was the author's fourth novel in English?
(a) A Grain of Wheat.
(b) The River Between.
(c) Weep Not, Child.
(d) Petals of Blood.

5. When was Caitaani Mutharabaini published?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1982.

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. Who invented mathematical science?

3. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?

4. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?

5. What country's government does the author describe as having a Literature Bureau that would not publish an African noel which had any but religious themes and sociological themes free from politics in Chapter 3, Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two factors have adversely affected the African novel and its development?

2. What is Gakaara Book Service and where is it located?

3. What are the subject and themes in the author's book Homecoming?

4. What is the basic demand in the statement presented by the author, Owuor Anyumba, and Taban Lo Liyong at the University of Nairobi?

5. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?

6. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?

7. What does the author remark about Joseph Conrad in regards to narrative perspective?

8. What were the three broad categories of literature available to African children described by the author in Chapter 4, Part III?

9. When did the great Nairobi Literature Debate begin? How did it begin?

10. How does the author define "fiction language"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 787 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample