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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 (Parts IV-V): "The Language of African Literature" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author refer to as being the basis of a people's identity in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) History.
(b) Values.
(c) Family.
(d) Economy.

2. What does the author describe as the second aspect of language as culture in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) An image-forming agent in the mind of a child.
(b) Language as a means for production.
(c) Language in the form of written signs.
(d) Culture as a reflection of history.

3. The author states in Chapter 1, Part V that economic and political control can never be complete or effective without what?
(a) Physical control.
(b) Environmental control.
(c) Agricultural control.
(d) Mental control.

4. What was the elitist institution for Africans in colonial Kenya where Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended high school?
(a) The Ndebele High School.
(b) The Alliance High School.
(c) The Oxford High School.
(d) The Niflheim High School.

5. When did the author submit The River Between to a writing competition by the East African Literature Bureau?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?

2. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?

3. Whose perceptions of Africa does the author described in Chapter 1, Part V as "comparable to a land of childhood still enveloped in the dark mantle of the night as far as the development of self-conscious history was concerned" (18)?

4. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?

5. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?

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