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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. When was the Bata shoe factory established?
2. About how many children did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?
3. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?
4. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?
5. Whose perceptions of Africa does the author described in Chapter 1, Part V as "comparable to a land of childhood still enveloped in the dark mantle of the night as far as the development of self-conscious history was concerned" (18)?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o cease writing in English? What were his first works in Gĩkũyũ?
2. Describe the Ituĩka ceremony. What was its purpose and how often did it take place?
3. How does the author describe the peasant's relationship to language in Chapter 1, Part VII?
4. Who were the Mau Mau?
5. What is the basic plot of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
6. Who is David Diop and what was his perspective on language?
7. What were Léopold Sédar Senghor's views on language?
8. What was the Kamĩrĩĩthhũ Community Education and Culture Centre?
9. What are the origins of drama, according to the author in Chapter 2, Part III?
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
Discuss how the printing press and the introduction of colleges and universities in Africa stood as opposing forces for African literature. When was the printing press introduced to Africa and by whom? Who controlled the publication of literature? How did colleges and universities stand as obstacles to African novelists?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the publication and distribution of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ. How many copies were originally ordered? How well did they sell and who bought them? How was the novel consumed by a largely illiterate audience?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the relationships between human experience, culture, and perceptions of reality. What role does language play as a means of communication and as a carrier of culture? What are the different subcategories of language as a means of communication and as a carrier of culture? How are culture and communication related to one another?
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