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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. What word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
2. By what number was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o called in prison?
3. In his analysis of a person's philosophical base in Chapter 4, Part VII, the author asks whether the person's mode of thinking is dialectical or what?
4. Who was the President of the West German Federal Council in 1984?
5. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
Short Essay Questions
1. What criticisms does the author make of Cry, the Beloved Country?
2. What does the author remark about Joseph Conrad in regards to narrative perspective?
3. What two factors have adversely affected the African novel and its development?
4. What are the subject and themes in the author's book Homecoming?
5. What is the meaning of the author's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant in Chapter 4, Part I?
6. How was written language largely developed in Africa?
7. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?
8. What about George Lamming's work impressed the author?
9. What does the author say about critical reception of literature in Chapter 3, Part IX?
10. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's decision to begin writing his works solely in Gĩkũyũ or Swahili. When did he make this decision? What led him to make this decision? What works has he written in his native tongues?
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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