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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 there a declaration of a state of emergency over Kenta that led to all schools being run by the colonial regime?
2. When did the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Culture Center begin functioning?
3. Where is the campus of Makerere University College located that the author attended a historic meeting of African writers as described in Chapter 1, Part II?
4. What performance troupe first performed The Trial of Dedan Kimathi?
5. In Chapter 1, Part IV, the author states that "Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and" what (13)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role did song and dance have in the original production of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
2. How did the literature of Africa change during the upheaval between imperialism and liberty?
3. What role did drama play in pre-colonial Kenyan life?
4. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?
5. What literary convention does the author describe in Chapter 1, Part II? Who attended?
6. What does the author mean when he refers to the domination of the mental universe of the colonized?
7. What are the two main strands of the petty-bourgeoisie in Africa that the author describes in Chapter 1, Part VI?
8. How does the author describe Kamĩrĩĩthũ? Where is it located? How many people live there?
9. In his Introduction, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o states that the study of African realities has been too long seen in terms of tribes. What does he mean by this?
10. Describe the theater that was erected at the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Centre. Where was it located?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the author's arrest and detainment in 1977-1978. On what grounds was he detained? Where was he detained? What works did he produce during his detainment?
Essay Topic 3
What languages have dominated Africa in the colonial and post-colonial eras? How were these European languages imparted upon the residents of African countries or colonies? In what languages did early African literature of the 19th and 20th centuries emerge?
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