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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. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?
2. 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?
3. What Guatemalan poet wrote the poem addressed to apolitical intellectuals that is excerpted in Chapter 4, Part VIII?
4. Who wrote The Five Bandits and Groundless Rumours?
5. What author's characters were identified by a Kenyan student within his village, leading to the belief that English literature was indeed relatable to Africans?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author remark about Faust in Chapter 3, Part VIII?
2. How does the author describe the the fairly simple structure of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ in Chapter 3, Part VI?
3. How did the author go about obtaining the basic necessities for writing while in prison?
4. What does the author mean when he refers to Afro-European literature?
5. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?
6. What is the meaning of the author's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant in Chapter 4, Part I?
7. What questions did the author face regarding linear versus nonlinear plot development when writing Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
8. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
9. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?
10. What were the three broad categories of literature available to African children described by the author in Chapter 4, Part III?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's education and career. Where did he grow up? Where did he study? What were his major subjects of study? What books has he written?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the oral storytelling traditions of Kenya. What were the subjects of these stories? How were they related and who was the audience? What happened to these oral traditions when colonization came to dominate the continent?
Essay Topic 3
What was the Berlin Conference of 1884? What world powers attended this conference? What was the goal of the conference? What outcomes came from the conference?
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