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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the Ituĩka ceremony banned in Kenya?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1944.
2. 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.
3. What language did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak growing up?
(a) Bantu.
(b) Hausa.
(c) Ashanti.
(d) Gĩkũyũ.
4. The chorus in Ngaahika Ndeenda asks where the grave is for whom?
(a) Eskista.
(b) Waiyaki.
(c) Kpanlogo.
(d) Aduma.
5. What were largely featured as the main characters in the stories that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o grew up listening to as a child?
(a) Gods.
(b) Women.
(c) Animals.
(d) Goddesses.
Short Answer Questions
1. Hausa is the first language of approximately how many people?
2. Who wrote Betrayal in the City?
3. Where are the owners of the Bata shoe factory based?
4. Who wrote the African novel The Voice?
5. What does "Caitaani mutharaba-Ini" translate to in English?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Ituĩka ceremony. What was its purpose and how often did it take place?
2. What are the origins of drama, according to the author in Chapter 2, Part III?
3. Who is David Diop and what was his perspective on language?
4. What role did song and dance have in the original production of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
5. What led the author to his choice of language in writing Ngaahika Ndeenda?
6. In his Introduction, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o states that the study of African realities has been too long seen in terms of tribes. What does he mean by this?
7. How did the literature of Africa change during the upheaval between imperialism and liberty?
8. How are language and communication products of each other?
9. How does the author describe the peasant's relationship to language in Chapter 1, Part VII?
10. What does the author mean when he refers to the domination of the mental universe of the colonized?
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