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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. The development of the treatise on the teaching of African literature in Kenyan schools stated that the teaching of non-African literature in schools should aim to introduce the student to what?

2. Who does the author attribute with changing language all the time?

3. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?

4. What novel of the author's is comprised of stories within stories in a series of flashbacks?

5. Who was the head of the English Department at Nairobi University in 1968?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What questions did the author face regarding linear versus nonlinear plot development when writing Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?

4. What were the three broad categories of literature available to African children described by the author in Chapter 4, Part III?

5. How does the author describe his prison cell in Chapter 3, Part I?

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

7. When did the great Nairobi Literature Debate begin? How did it begin?

8. How did the author go about obtaining the basic necessities for writing while in prison?

9. Who is Wole Soyinka and what works has he written?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the production process of Ngaahika Ndeenda. How long did the process take from research and script-writing to performance? What were auditions and rehearsals like? How did the play evolve as it was developed?

Essay Topic 2

What impacts have colonization and imperialism had on the language of Kenyans and other Africans? How did colonial schools have a part in these impacts? What were the results of the import of European languages in Africa?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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