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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the repeated chorus in the scene from Ngaahika Ndeenda that is presented in the text, the lyrics state that problems can be settled in what?
2. On what days of the week did the woman from Kamĩrĩĩthũ visit the author, according to his narrative in Chapter 2, Part I?
3. The author states in Chapter 1, Part IV, "Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's" what (15)?
4. What term used by the author in the Introduction is defined by him as having the effect of annihilating a people's belief in their names, languages, unity, and ultimately, themselves?
5. According to the author in Chapter 1, Part I, as an effect of colonization, Africa was defined in the languages of Europe. What three languages does he describe?
Short Essay Questions
1. What literary convention does the author describe in Chapter 1, Part II? Who attended?
2. What does the author ask about writers who continue to write in foreign languages in Chapter 1, Part VIII?
3. What was Chinua Achebe's stance on language?
4. Who were the Mau Mau?
5. What are the main characters anticipating in the opening of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
6. What were Léopold Sédar Senghor's views on language?
7. How are language and communication products of each other?
8. What dramas was the author exposed to during his education?
9. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?
10. How did the literature of Africa change during the upheaval between imperialism and liberty?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who were Léopold Sédar Senghor and Chinua Achebe? In what languages did they each write? What works did they publish? What criticisms does the author observe of these authors?
Essay Topic 2
What is referred to by the term mental domination in the context of the book? How is language used in mental domination? Why is mental domination necessary in order to achieve economic and political domination over a people?
Essay Topic 3
What is the African bourgeoisie? How many different threads comprise this social class? What are these threads? Where does the author fall among the classes of Africa?
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