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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. How many copies of Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ did the publishers initially print?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 5,000.
2. Who gave the speech "Shakespeare in Africa" at Makerere University College?
(a) Professor Warner.
(b) Professor Okara.
(c) Professor Diop.
(d) Professor Hegel.
3. Where is Ibadan University located?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Chad.
4. Who wrote The Five Bandits and Groundless Rumours?
(a) Amos Tutuola.
(b) Kim Chi Ha.
(c) Bob Dixon.
(d) Gabriel Okara.
5. What was the student literary journal at Ibadan University College?
(a) Horn.
(b) Penpoint.
(c) Kĩgũũnda.
(d) Pen and Ink.
Short Answer Questions
1. During what years was Gakaara wa Wanjaũ detained in prison?
2. When was the conference on "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools" held at the Nairobi School?
3. What novel of the author's is comprised of stories within stories in a series of flashbacks?
4. Who is the author of Out of Africa?
5. What publishing house did Gakaara wa Wanjaũ establish?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Bertolt Brecht?
2. What is the meaning of the author's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant in Chapter 4, Part I?
3. What reasons does the author give for Africans studying Caribbean and Afro-American literature?
4. What does the author remark about Franz Josef Strauss's official visit to the Independent Republic of Togo in Chapter 3, Part VII?
5. What two factors have adversely affected the African novel and its development?
6. What are the subject and themes in the author's book Homecoming?
7. How does the author describe the the fairly simple structure of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ in Chapter 3, Part VI?
8. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
9. Who is Wole Soyinka and what works has he written?
10. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
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