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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 author's earliest short story, which was published in the literary journal at Makerere University College?
(a) "The Fig Tree."
(b) "The Officer."
(c) "The Waving Wheat."
(d) "The Sand Dune."

2. Who is the trickster that is featured in Hekaya Za Abunuwasi?
(a) Gernudisi.
(b) Abunuwasi.
(c) Tutuola.
(d) Okara.

3. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

4. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Franz Josef Strauss.

5. The author asserts in his conclusion in Chapter 4, Part IX that what this book on the politics of language in African literature is really about is what?
(a) The unity of different languages and cultures.
(b) National, democratic, and human liberation.
(c) The communication of struggle throughout history.
(d) The salvation of the African schoolchild.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author refer to as the two most outstanding critical minds that might have made his study of English Literature really meaningful?

2. During what years was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ detained in prison?

3. In what language was Hekaya Za Abunuwasi written?

4. Who wrote In the Castle of My Skin?

5. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the author remark about Franz Josef Strauss's official visit to the Independent Republic of Togo in Chapter 3, Part VII?

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

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

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

9. What are the subject and themes in the author's book Homecoming?

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

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