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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book African Language Literatures that is referred to in Chapter 1, Part VII?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Albert Gerard.

2. Who wrote King Solomon's Mines?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

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

4. When was there a declaration of a state of emergency over Kenta that led to all schools being run by the colonial regime?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1952.

5. When was Caitaani mutharaba-Ini published?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hausa is the first language of approximately how many people?

2. Who declared in an article in Transition in 1963 that the acceptance of English and French as having no chance of advancing African literature and culture?

3. What novel of the author's did he hope to give a transcript of to Chinua Achebe at the writers' conference described in Chapter 1, Part II?

4. In Chapter 1, Part IV, the author states that "Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and" what (13)?

5. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?

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