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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (Parts I-IV): "The Language of African Theatre".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Facing Mount Kenya?
(a) Jomo Kenyatta.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.
(d) Obi Wali.

2. When does the author describe attending a historic meeting of African writers in Chapter 1, Part II?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1974.

3. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1981.

4. When did the Kenya Land and Freedom Army usher in the era of modern guerilla warfare in Africa?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1965.

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, Part V as having said, "... the blacks ... are inferior to the whites on the endowments of both body and mind ..." (18)?
(a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Sir H. Rider Haggard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wives did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?

2. In Chapter 1, Part IV the author states that language as communication has three aspects. The first of these is the language of real life, which he attributes to having been coined by whom?

3. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?

4. Who wrote Contes d'Amadou Koumba?

5. 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)?

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