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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 Pilgrim's Progress?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) John Bunyan.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.
2. Who wrote The Five Bandits and Groundless Rumours?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Bob Dixon.
(c) Kim Chi Ha.
(d) Amos Tutuola.
3. What word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
(a) Inculcated.
(b) Indoctrinated.
(c) Corrugated.
(d) Emulsified.
4. The development of the treatise on the teaching of African literature in Kenyan schools stated that the teaching of non-African literature in schools should aim to introduce the student to what?
(a) The world context of the North American experience.
(b) The world context of the European experience.
(c) The world context of the neo-colonial age.
(d) The world context of the black experience.
5. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?
(a) Wanjaũ Book Service.
(b) Ituĩka Book Service.
(c) Gakaara Book Service.
(d) Kĩgũũnda Book Service.
Short Answer Questions
1. Along with what other two lecturers did the author present a rejection of the primacy of English literature and cultures at Nairobi University?
2. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
3. Who was the President of Toto from 1967 until 2005?
4. Who does the author refer to as the two most outstanding critical minds that might have made his study of English Literature really meaningful?
5. What does the author describe as the ultimate arbiter of form in Chapter 3, Part VI?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?
2. How does the author define "fiction language"?
3. What works did the author assign to his students to read just before his arrest? Why?
4. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
5. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?
6. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?
7. What questions did the author face regarding linear versus nonlinear plot development when writing Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
8. When did the great Nairobi Literature Debate begin? How did it begin?
9. How was written language largely developed in Africa?
10. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?
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