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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the elitist institution for Africans in colonial Kenya where Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended high school?
(a) The Alliance High School.
(b) The Oxford High School.
(c) The Niflheim High School.
(d) The Ndebele High School.

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

3. When did the Kĩmaathi-led armed struggle begin leading to the British colonial regimes suspending all civil liberties?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1952.

4. When was the Bata shoe factory established?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1944.

5. Where is the Wolof language primarily used?
(a) Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
(b) Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon.
(c) Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania.
(d) Algeria, Libya, and Egype.

6. 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)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Sir H. Rider Haggard.
(d) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

7. What was the wall made of that stood at the back of the stage at Kamĩrĩĩthũ?
(a) Bamboo.
(b) Mud.
(c) Stucco.
(d) Mesh cloth.

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

9. What did Sydney Portier say he had come to associate Africa with as a result of the literature he had read?
(a) Witches.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Lions.
(d) Snakes.

10. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o begin writing in Gĩkũyũ?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1975.

11. With whom did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o collaborate in the drafting of the playscript for Ngaahika Ndeenda?
(a) Martin Carter.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) Ngũgĩ wa Miriĩ.

12. How many years of involvement had Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spent writing literature in Englis when the author began writing in Gĩkũyũ?
(a) 17.
(b) 31.
(c) 13.
(d) 22.

13. What term from Chapter 1, Part VI refers to a person within a country who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation?
(a) Conquistador.
(b) Matador.
(c) Compatriate.
(d) Comprador.

14. Where are the owners of the Bata shoe factory based?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United States.
(d) Germany.

15. 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) Martin Carter.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Obi Wali.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Caitaani mutharaba-Ini published?

2. What language did the President of the Kamuzu Academy instruct should occupy a central place in the curriculum?

3. The process of production for Ngaahika Ndeenda, from research, writing, auditions, and rehearsals as well as construction of the theater took how much time?

4. 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)?

5. What term does the author define in Chapter 1, Part VIII as "literature written by Africans in European languages in the era of imperialism" (27)?

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