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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 word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
(a) Corrugated.
(b) Indoctrinated.
(c) Inculcated.
(d) Emulsified.

2. What essay from the book Writers in Politics does the author describe in Chapter 4, Part III?
(a) "The Struggle for Cultural Freedom."
(b) "Literature and Society."
(c) "Literature in Production."
(d) "Performance of Literature and Power."

3. Who was the President of Toto from 1967 until 2005?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) Kim Chi Ha.

4. What did a very cruel prison superintendent warn Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o against writing?
(a) Poems.
(b) Letters.
(c) Novels.
(d) Memoirs.

5. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?
(a) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the author's favorite novel by Joseph Conrad?

3. Who wrote the novel Mister Johnson?

4. When was Caitaani Mutharabaini published?

5. Who does the author attribute with changing language all the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the narrative form of A Grain of Wheat?

2. What does the author mean when he refers to Afro-European literature?

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

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

5. Who was Bertolt Brecht?

6. What about George Lamming's work impressed the author?

7. How does the author describe his prison cell in Chapter 3, Part I?

8. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?

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

10. Who is Wole Soyinka and what works has he written?

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