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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 (Parts V-IX): "The Quest for Relevance".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his analysis of a person's philosophical base in Chapter 4, Part VII, the author asks whether the person's mode of thinking is dialectical or what?
(a) Comprehensive.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Analytical.
(d) Rational.

2. 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) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(b) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

3. In what book of the author's did he narrate the fate of the production of Maitũ Njugĩra?
(a) Petals of Blood.
(b) Barrel of a Pen.
(c) Homecoming.
(d) Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams.

4. When was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o arrested as a result of the production of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
(a) March 30, 1977.
(b) October 2, 1977.
(c) September 12, 1976.
(d) December 31, 1977.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kĩmaathi-led armed struggle begin leading to the British colonial regimes suspending all civil liberties?

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

3. About how often was the Ituĩka ceremony held by the Agĩkũyũ?

4. 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)?

5. The author states in Chapter 1, Part V that economic and political control can never be complete or effective without what?

(see the answer key)

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