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

2. What was the name of the journal in the Gĩkũyũ language that Gakaara wa Wanjaũ established after being released from prison?
(a) Kĩgũũnda.
(b) Maitũ Njugĩra.
(c) Matigari ma Njiruungi.
(d) Gĩkũyũ Na Mũmbi.

3. Who chaired the committee that organized the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
(a) Birago Diop and Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Bob Dixon and Gabriel Okara.
(c) Eddah Gachukia and S. A. Akivaga.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ and Alan Paton.

4. By what number was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o called in prison?
(a) K5, 89.
(b) K6, 77.
(c) K3, 99.
(d) K4, 51.

5. During what years was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ detained in prison?
(a) 1952-1962.
(b) 1955-1962.
(c) 1950-1958.
(d) 1959-1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did the author begin attending Makerere University College?

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

4. What was the author's fourth novel in English?

5. Who wrote the poem "Speech to Danish Working Class Actors on the Art of Observation"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author remark about Faust in Chapter 3, Part VIII?

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

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

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

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

7. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?

8. What works did the author assign to his students to read just before his arrest? Why?

9. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?

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

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