AFRICAN LITERATURE - Quiz
- 1. Which continent is Africa in terms of size?
A) 2nd largest
B) 3rd largest
C) 4th largest
D) 1st largest
- 2. Which body of water separates Africa from Asia?
A) Gulf of Aden
B) Mediterranean Sea
C) Suez Canal
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) Christianity
B) Buddhism
C) Islam
D) Hinduism
- 5. Which African epic was composed in medieval Mali?
A) Epic of Dinga
B) Kebra Nagast
C) Epic of Sundiata
D) Trickster Story
- 6. Who coined the term "Orature" to describe African oral literature?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
D) Pio Zirimu
- 7. Which of the following is a key characteristic of “Call and Response” in African oral traditions?
A) Use of music only
B) Spontaneous interaction between the speaker and listener
C) Solitary performance
D) Written texts only
- 8. Which of the following works is associated with pre-colonial African literature?
A) Epic of Dinga
B) The Girl Who Liked to Save
C) Things Fall Apart
D) Black Hermit
- 9. Who published the first English-language African play?
A) John Pepper Clark
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
D) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- 10. Which novel by Chinua Achebe received significant worldwide critical acclaim?
A) The River Between
B) Things Fall Apart
C) Black Hermit
D) The Girl Who Liked to Save
- 11. It was the first East African drama, written by Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
A) Kebra Nagast
B) Pio Zirimu
C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
D) Wole Soyinka
- 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) False
B) True
- 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) False
B) True
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