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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did a very cruel prison superintendent warn Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o against writing?
(a) Memoirs.
(b) Letters.
(c) Novels.
(d) Poems.

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

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Obi Wali.
(c) Martin Carter.
(d) Birago Diop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?

2. When were Kamĩrĩĩthũ and the other villages around Limuru established?

3. What statement largely sums up the author's central theme in Chapter 1, Part IV?

4. Wangeci's monologue from the excerpt of Ngaahika Ndeenda in the text describes the Olengurueni women who were exiled to where?

5. How many years of involvement had Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spent writing literature in Englis when the author began writing in Gĩkũyũ?

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