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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. During what years was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ detained in prison?
(a) 1950-1958.
(b) 1959-1962.
(c) 1952-1962.
(d) 1955-1962.
2. The author asserts in Chapter 3, Part IX that the reception of a work of art is what?
(a) Secondary to the work itself.
(b) Part of the work itself.
(c) Important to understanding audience.
(d) Not of concern.
3. Who was the head of the English Department at Nairobi University in 1968?
(a) Dr. James Stewart.
(b) Dr. Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Dr. Martin Carter.
(d) Dr. Bob Dixon.
4. Where was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o detained?
(a) Kĩgũũnda Maximum Security Prison.
(b) Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
(c) Ituĩka Maximum Security Prison.
(d) Kĩmaathi Maximum Security Prison.
5. Who is the protagonist in Cry, the Beloved Country?
(a) Nyakinyua.
(b) Stephen Kumalo.
(c) Nderi wa Riera.
(d) Wanja.
Short Answer Questions
1. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?
2. What did a very cruel prison superintendent warn Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o against writing?
3. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
4. 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?
5. Who wrote The Interpreters?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Bertolt Brecht?
2. What about George Lamming's work impressed the author?
3. What does the author say about critical reception of literature in Chapter 3, Part IX?
4. Why does the author find fault in the orthography of Gĩkũyũ?
5. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?
6. What does the author remark about Franz Josef Strauss's official visit to the Independent Republic of Togo in Chapter 3, Part VII?
7. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
8. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?
9. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?
10. How does the author describe the narrative form of A Grain of Wheat?
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