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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the author of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
2. The author describes in Chapter 3, Part VII being most impressed with the masterful handling of what in In the Castle of My Skin?
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. In what language did Fumo Liyongo write?
5. What word from the text refers to the conventional spelling system of a language?
Short Essay Questions
1. What criticisms does the author make of Cry, the Beloved Country?
2. What does the author remark about Franz Josef Strauss's official visit to the Independent Republic of Togo in Chapter 3, Part VII?
3. How was written language largely developed in Africa?
4. What is the basic demand in the statement presented by the author, Owuor Anyumba, and Taban Lo Liyong at the University of Nairobi?
5. What does the author remark about African poetry in Chapter 4, Part I?
6. Who attended the conference "The Teaching of African Literature in Kenyan Schools"?
7. What does the author mean when he refers to a person's philosophic base of relevance?
8. How were copies of Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ distributed in rural Africa?
9. How does the author describe the narrative form of A Grain of Wheat?
10. Who is Wole Soyinka and what works has he written?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the author's arrest and detainment in 1977-1978. On what grounds was he detained? Where was he detained? What works did he produce during his detainment?
Essay Topic 2
What was the Berlin Conference of 1884? What world powers attended this conference? What was the goal of the conference? What outcomes came from the conference?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the relationships between human experience, culture, and perceptions of reality. What role does language play as a means of communication and as a carrier of culture? What are the different subcategories of language as a means of communication and as a carrier of culture? How are culture and communication related to one another?
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