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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (Part V): "The Language of African Theatre".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?
(a) Culture and communication are unnecessary.
(b) Culture creates communication, and communication is a means to culture.
(c) Culture reflects history and communication carries history.
(d) Communication creates culture, and culture is a means of communication.

2. What does the author describe as a constant theme in the stories that he grew up listening to?
(a) Cooperation as the ultimate good in a community.
(b) Children are the product of their parents' actions.
(c) Marriage is a holy sacrament.
(d) Power lies in the hands of those who seize it.

3. What does the author refer to as the result of the broken harmony between the three aspects of language as communication for the colonial child?
(a) Colonial alienation.
(b) Colonial distinction.
(c) Colonial affectation.
(d) Colonial aberration.

4. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?
(a) Swahili.
(b) Latin.
(c) Gĩkũyũ.
(d) French.

5. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Gĩkũyũ.
(b) Ashanti.
(c) Hausa.
(d) Bantu.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?

2. On what date did the Kenya government ban any further performances of Ngaahika Ndeenda?

3. Who was the first Kenyan African Drama and Literature officer that oversaw the Schools Drama Festival?

4. What does the author say the real aim of colonialism was in Chapter 1, Part V?

5. What was the approximate population of Kamĩrĩĩthũ in 1975?

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