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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. The chorus in Ngaahika Ndeenda asks where the grave is for whom?
(a) Waiyaki.
(b) Kpanlogo.
(c) Eskista.
(d) Aduma.

2. From whom does the author borrow the phrase "empty space" in Chapter 2, Part III (37)?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Obi Wali.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ.

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

4. The author notes in his Introduction that the study of African realities has been seen for too long in terms of what?
(a) War.
(b) Illiteracy.
(c) Tribes.
(d) Poverty.

5. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) Germany.
(c) Greenland.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Caitaani mutharaba-Ini" translate to in English?

2. The author states in Chapter 2, Part V that "In the opening line of The Black Hermit the peasant mother is made to speak in a poetic language reminiscent in tone of" whom (43)?

3. What three colors comprise the flag of Kenya?

4. How far is Kamĩrĩĩthũ from Nairobi?

5. 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)?

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