Duplicate of General African Literature

Question 1

How long had Kamau been away from his home village?

Accepted Answer

5 years

Question 2

What year did Kenya gain independence from Britain?

Accepted Answer

1963

Question 3

Who performed the TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story ?

Accepted Answer

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Question 4

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) shows uncivilized Africans as a(n) _ to "superior" Europeans.

Accepted Answer

foil

Question 5

In The Return, where was Kamau returning from?

Accepted Answer

Detention camps

Question 6

How did the old women at the village entrance react when Kamau greeted them?

Accepted Answer

They stared silently

Question 7

What years did the Berlin Conference take place?

Accepted Answer

1883, 1884, & 1885

Question 8

What is a "shift in voice"?

Accepted Answer

A change from imperative to indicative mood, or vice versa, Shifting from singular verbs to plural verbs, Inconsistently using past, present, or future tense of verbs, Confusing first, second, and third person pronouns

Question 9

Who wrote, "And So It Came to Pass" ?

Accepted Answer

Funso Aiyejina

Question 10

What is an allegory?

Accepted Answer

When the story is a stand-in for another story (like Narnia)

Question 11

Who wrote the short story, The Return?

Accepted Answer

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Question 12

How did Kamau feel when his things were washed away in the river?

Accepted Answer

Relieved

Question 13

What is the belief that Europe is superior to Africa in most ways?

Accepted Answer

Euro-centrism

Question 14

Which is a major ethnic group within Africa?

Accepted Answer

Yoruba, Igbo

Question 15

In The Danger of A Single Story, what did types of stories did Adiche read?

Accepted Answer

Ones about English children

Question 16

What is autonomy?

Accepted Answer

The right to rule oneself

Question 17

Which are prominent rivers within the continent of Africa?

Accepted Answer

Congo, Nile, and Niger

Question 18

What is an allusion?

Accepted Answer

An author (or creator) referencing an event or person

Question 19

How was Muthoni related to Kamau?

Accepted Answer

She was his wife

Question 20

What type of literature is "And So It Came to Pass" ?

Accepted Answer

Poem

Question 21

What was an "unintended consequence" of reading these books?

Accepted Answer

Adichie thought all books had to be about white people

Question 22

Why did everyone think that Kamau was dead?

Accepted Answer

Karanja told them so

Question 23

What is the general theme of this poem?

Accepted Answer

Saviors and leaders betraying their people

Question 24

In this poem, what are the "fearless warriors" compared to?

Accepted Answer

Crabs

Question 25

"A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing." (Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart) means:

Accepted Answer

Something is probably wrong when people act unusually

Question 26

What is an author's word choice called?

Accepted Answer

Diction

Question 27

The word "savior" is an allusion to what religion?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 28

(T/F) Kamau drowned himself at the end of The Return

Accepted Answer

False

Duplicate of General African Literature

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Duplicate of General African Literature

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