- 1. Which continent is Africa in terms of size?
A) 3rd largest
B) 4th largest
C) 2nd largest
D) 1st largest
- 2. Which body of water separates Africa from Asia?
A) Gulf of Aden
B) Suez Canal
C) Mediterranean Sea
D) Red Sea
- 3. Which of the following is NOT one of the Afroasiatic languages?
A) Amharic
B) Arabic
C) Somali
D) Zulu
- 4. What is the dominant religion in northern Africa?
A) Islam
B) Buddhism
C) Hinduism
D) Christianity
- 5. Which African epic was composed in medieval Mali?
A) Epic of Dinga
B) Epic of Sundiata
C) Kebra Nagast
D) Trickster Story
- 6. Who coined the term "Orature" to describe African oral literature?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Pio Zirimu
- 7. Which of the following is a key characteristic of “Call and Response” in African oral traditions?
A) Written texts only
B) Use of music only
C) Solitary performance
D) Spontaneous interaction between the speaker and listener
- 8. Which of the following works is associated with pre-colonial African literature?
A) Black Hermit
B) The Girl Who Liked to Save
C) Things Fall Apart
D) Epic of Dinga
- 9. Who published the first English-language African play?
A) John Pepper Clark
B) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
C) Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
D) Chinua Achebe
- 10. Which novel by Chinua Achebe received significant worldwide critical acclaim?
A) The Girl Who Liked to Save
B) The River Between
C) Black Hermit
D) Things Fall Apart
- 11. It was the first East African drama, written by Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
A) Kebra Nagast
B) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Pio Zirimu
- 12. Wole Soyinka was the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A) True
B) False
- 13. Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A) True
B) False
- 14. The Trickster Story is a form of African folktale typically associated with colonial literature.
A) True
B) False
- 15. The Kebra Nagast or the Book of Kings is one of the best-known works in pre-colonial African literature.
A) True
B) False
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