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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. What essay from the book Writers in Politics does the author describe in Chapter 4, Part III?
(a) "Literature and Society."
(b) "Literature in Production."
(c) "The Struggle for Cultural Freedom."
(d) "Performance of Literature and Power."

2. Who chaired the committee that organized the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
(a) Eddah Gachukia and S. A. Akivaga.
(b) Birago Diop and Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Gakaara wa Wanjaũ and Alan Paton.
(d) Bob Dixon and Gabriel Okara.

3. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?
(a) The lyricism of the narrative.
(b) The themes developed in the novel.
(c) The symbolism and imagery.
(d) Different narrative techniques.

4. Who is the trickster that is featured in Hekaya Za Abunuwasi?
(a) Gernudisi.
(b) Okara.
(c) Abunuwasi.
(d) Tutuola.

5. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?
(a) 62.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what did the author write his novel Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini?

2. Who wrote The Interpreters?

3. 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?

4. What was the literary journal at Makerere University College?

5. What is the competition set to choose at the feast of thieves and robbers in Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the subject and themes in the author's book Homecoming?

2. What criticisms does the author make of Cry, the Beloved Country?

3. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?

4. How did the author go about obtaining the basic necessities for writing while in prison?

5. What questions did the author face regarding linear versus nonlinear plot development when writing Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ?

6. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?

7. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?

8. What does the author remark about Joseph Conrad in regards to narrative perspective?

9. How does the author define "fiction language"?

10. What works did the author assign to his students to read just before his arrest? Why?

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