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

2. What was the student literary journal at Ibadan University College?
(a) Kĩgũũnda.
(b) Penpoint.
(c) Horn.
(d) Pen and Ink.

3. What is the author's favorite novel by Joseph Conrad?
(a) Lord Jim.
(b) The Secret Agent.
(c) Heart of Darkness.
(d) Nostromo.

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

5. 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) Objectivist.
(b) Leftist.
(c) Realist.
(d) Materialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Interpreters?

2. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?

3. 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?

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

5. In what language is Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ written?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What criticisms does the author make of Cry, the Beloved Country?

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

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

6. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?

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

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

9. What is the meaning of the author's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant in Chapter 4, Part I?

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

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