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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?
(a) Alan Paton.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Obi Wali.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

2. What word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
(a) Corrugated.
(b) Emulsified.
(c) Indoctrinated.
(d) Inculcated.

3. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?
(a) Professor Diop.
(b) Professor Hegel.
(c) Professor Warner.
(d) Professor Okara.

4. Where was the author working as the Chairman of the Literature Department when he was arrested?
(a) The University of Makerere.
(b) The University of Nairobi.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Leeds University.

5. In the author's analysis of the philosophical base of a person's perspective in Chapter 4, Part VII, he asks whether a person's standpoint is idealist or what?
(a) Objectivist.
(b) Materialist.
(c) Leftist.
(d) Realist.

6. What was the literary journal at Makerere University College?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Kĩgũũnda.
(c) Penpoint.
(d) Horn.

7. What does the author describe as the ultimate arbiter of form in Chapter 3, Part VI?
(a) Language.
(b) Theme.
(c) Content.
(d) Symbolism.

8. Who wrote The Five Bandits and Groundless Rumours?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Gabriel Okara.
(c) Amos Tutuola.
(d) Bob Dixon.

9. What is the competition set to choose at the feast of thieves and robbers in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?
(a) The seven cleverest thieves and robbers.
(b) The two wisest of the thieves and robbers.
(c) The three most effective of the thieves and robbers.
(d) The two most humble of the thieves and robbers.

10. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.
(c) Alan Paton.
(d) Frantz Fanon.

11. How many copies of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ did the publishers initially print?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 10,000.

12. Who wrote In the Castle of My Skin?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) George Lamming.

13. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Alan Paton.
(c) Frantz Fanon.
(d) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ.

14. Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Amos Tutuola.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Mikhail Bulgakov.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ moves in a matatu taxi from Nairobi to Ilmorog?

2. What metaphor does the author present to describe the differences of perception in Chapter 4, Part I?

3. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?

4. Who wrote The Interpreters?

5. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?

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