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