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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 Toto from 1967 until 2005?

2. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?

3. Who was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zaire from 1965 to 1997?

4. What was the literary journal at Makerere University College?

5. Who does the author refer to as the two most outstanding critical minds that might have made his study of English Literature really meaningful?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was written language largely developed in Africa?

2. What works did the author assign to his students to read just before his arrest? Why?

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

4. Who was Bertolt Brecht?

5. How does the author define "fiction language"?

6. What does the author remark about Joseph Conrad in regards to narrative perspective?

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

8. How does the author describe the the fairly simple structure of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ in Chapter 3, Part VI?

9. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?

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

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 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

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?

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