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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (Parts IV-V): "The Language of African Fiction".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the author's fourth novel in English?
(a) The River Between.
(b) Petals of Blood.
(c) A Grain of Wheat.
(d) Weep Not, Child.

2. Who wrote Catching Them Young?
(a) Gabriel Okara.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Bob Dixon.

3. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Frantz Fanon.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

4. 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?
(a) Frantz Fanon.
(b) Vladimir Lenin.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Alan Paton.

5. What novel did the author's headmaster at Alliance High School admonish for introducing sex sequences between whites and blacks in South Africa?
(a) Mother Sing for Me.
(b) Too Late the Phalarope.
(c) Devil on the Cross.
(d) A Meeting in the Dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the wall made of that stood at the back of the stage at Kamĩrĩĩthũ?

2. What does the word "axiomatic" mean, as used in Chapter 1, Part I?

3. When was The Black Hermit first produced?

4. On what date did Ngaahika Ndeenda open to a paying audience?

5. Where was Janheinz Jahn from?

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