Authors
What did Doris Lessing write?
"The Old Chief Mshlanga”
What did Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie write?
The Headstrong Historian
In Amichai’s “Tourists,” what would redeem the tour guide who uses the speaker of the poem as a “target marker”?
The tour guide is spiteful towards to the tourists because they are looking at the land and not the people and they would need to start looking at the people for redemption
How does Wariuki first capture Miriamu’s heart?
He is free spirited and Afro-cenric
What is the result of Rosa’s juju experiment?
It didn’t work, she ended up talking to Wodo who said that she could end up being a teacher but she needs to focus and have passion in what she does especially literature
What did Nadine Gordimer write?
"The Moment Before the Gun Went Off"
Who began their own career writing in English, but in 1977 made the decision to switch their language of composition to his native Kikuyu language?
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
How does the landscape change for the narrator of “The Old Chief Mshlanga” after she visits Chief Mshlanga at the kraal?
She started seeing the land for what it was and not the fantasy in her head
“Two Sisters” uses which of the following literary devices (select all that apply): A) Personifies the Gulf of Guinea, B) Synesthesia, C) Interior perspective changes without warning, D) Personifies a pair of singing shoes
Personifies the Gulf of Guinea (relates it to God)
What kind of bird plays a prominent role in “Death and the King’s Horseman”?
Not-I bird (symbol of Death)
Which author is the most influential African writer?
Chinua Achebe
Whose life is marked by the Mao Mao rebellion that was instrumental in expelling the British from Kenya, and his intellectual life was heavily influenced by Marxism and writers from the radical left?
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
What is Chike’s caste by birth?
Slave caste: Osu
What does the Grandmother do at the very end of “The Women’s Swimming Pool”?
Pray
What is the number on the speaker’s identity card in Darwish’s “Identity Card”?
50,000
What did Chinua Achebe write?
Chike's School days
Who is the first Black African writer to have received the Nobel Prize?
Wole Soyinka
What is one way that Saadawi limits readers’ perspective in “In Camera”?
Synthesia
Why does Nwamgba have Anikwenwa attend the missionary school?
She wanted Anikwenwa to go to missionary school so he could be intelligent and prevent him from getting killed by Obierika's cousins who wanted their land
Daru tells Balducci he will not hand the Arab to French colonial forces. What does he tell Balducci he is willing to do for the French regime?
He says he will wait until there is a declaration of war
Who had advanced schooling mostly in the U.S.?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What did Ngugi wa Thiong’o write?
Wedding at the Cross
What play do Wodo and his students discuss in “Passion” and why might this play be significant to the themes of the story?
Shakespeare: King Lear, it shows the social order of African culture and the dominances and importance on men and families and caste
What text is the following quote from? “You said No, I shall step in the vomit of cats and the droppings of mice; I shall fight them for the left-overs of the world.”
Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
What is the effect of portraying humans as animals in “Maus”?
it gives distance from the readers to make it easier to read