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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. Who wrote The Interpreters?
(a) Kim Chi Ha.
(b) Wole Soyinka.
(c) Gabriel Okara.
(d) Amos Tutuola.
2. What cell number did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o have in prison?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 62.
(d) 13.
3. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?
(a) Swahili.
(b) Hausa.
(c) Jalaa.
(d) Gĩkũyũ.
4. Who wrote the novel Mister Johnson?
(a) Karen Blixen.
(b) Nderi wa Riera.
(c) Bob Dixon.
(d) Joyce Cary.
5. What word from the text means instilled by persistent instruction?
(a) Indoctrinated.
(b) Inculcated.
(c) Corrugated.
(d) Emulsified.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who invented mathematical science?
2. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?
3. Who wrote A Room of One's Own?
4. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?
5. Who is described in Chapter 4, Part IX as a German visionary how the money taken from the worker and the poor had come to dominate human relations?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?
2. How does the author describe the the fairly simple structure of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ in Chapter 3, Part VI?
3. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?
4. Who is Wole Soyinka and what works has he written?
5. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?
6. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
7. What does the author remark about Joseph Conrad in regards to narrative perspective?
8. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
9. What does the author say about critical reception of literature in Chapter 3, Part IX?
10. What criticisms does the author make of Cry, the Beloved Country?
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