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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the repeated chorus in the scene from Ngaahika Ndeenda that is presented in the text, the lyrics state that problems can be settled in what?
(a) Love.
(b) Jokes.
(c) War.
(d) Blood.

2. 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) Obi Wali.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Birago Diop.
(d) Martin Carter.

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

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

5. What does "Ngaahika Ndeenda" translate to in English?
(a) A Meeting in the Dark.
(b) I Will Marry When I Want.
(c) Mother Sing for Me.
(d) Devil on the Cross.

6. Who wrote The Palm-wine Drunkard?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Birago Diop.
(c) Martin Carter.
(d) Gabriel Okara.

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

8. Where did Dr. Kimanĩ Gecaũ flee to in 1982?
(a) Cameroon.
(b) Algeria.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) The Democratic Republic of Congo.

9. In Ngaahika Ndeenda, Wangeci's monologue describes the Olengurueni women who were driven from their lands around where?
(a) Eskista.
(b) Nakuru.
(c) Aduma.
(d) Yatta.

10. When did the Kenya Land and Freedom Army usher in the era of modern guerilla warfare in Africa?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1965.

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

12. Wangeci's monologue from the excerpt of Ngaahika Ndeenda in the text describes the Olengurueni women who were exiled to where?
(a) Yatta.
(b) Nakuru.
(c) Aduma.
(d) Eskista.

13. How many wives did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

14. What was the approximate population of Kamĩrĩĩthũ in 1975?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 10,000.

15. 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)?
(a) Afro-European literature.
(b) European-African literature.
(c) Neo-African literature.
(d) African Exile literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the campus of Makerere University College located that the author attended a historic meeting of African writers as described in Chapter 1, Part II?

2. About how many children did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's father have?

3. What novel of the author's did he hope to give a transcript of to Chinua Achebe at the writers' conference described in Chapter 1, Part II?

4. What was the play The Black Hermit meant to celebrate?

5. What does the author refer to as the result of the broken harmony between the three aspects of language as communication for the colonial child?

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