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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. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
(a) Mikhail Bulgakov.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Kim Chi Ha.
(d) Amos Tutuola.
2. What Guatemalan poet wrote the poem addressed to apolitical intellectuals that is excerpted in Chapter 4, Part VIII?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Otto Rene Castillo.
3. How many copies of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ did the publishers initially print?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,000.
4. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(d) Frantz Fanon.
5. What is the author's favorite novel by Joseph Conrad?
(a) Lord Jim.
(b) The Secret Agent.
(c) Heart of Darkness.
(d) Nostromo.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the author's fourth novel in English?
2. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?
3. Who wrote The Interpreters?
4. What was the name of the journal in the Gĩkũyũ language that Gakaara wa Wanjaũ established after being released from prison?
5. What is the central backdrop of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
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 a person's philosophic base of relevance?
3. What does the author remark about Franz Josef Strauss's official visit to the Independent Republic of Togo in Chapter 3, Part VII?
4. What is the meaning of the author's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant in Chapter 4, Part I?
5. When did the great Nairobi Literature Debate begin? How did it begin?
6. How does the author define "fiction language"?
7. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?
8. What does the author say about critical reception of literature in Chapter 3, Part IX?
9. What were the three broad categories of literature available to African children described by the author in Chapter 4, Part III?
10. How does the author describe the the fairly simple structure of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ in Chapter 3, Part VI?
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