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African Novels

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African Novels game quiz
"Here are ten questions on Twentieth Century African novels."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Who wrote the 1958 classic "Things Fall Apart"?
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    Ferdinand Oyono
    Chinua Achebe
    Alan Paton


2. In "Things Fall Apart," why is Okonkwo exiled from his home village?
    Becoming too involved with the Christians
    His gun explodes and it kills a boy
    Burning his neighbor's farm
    Refusing to sacrifice the boy sent from the neighboring clan


3. Who wrote the 1965 classic "The River Between"?
    Ferdinand Oyono
    Alan Paton
    Mongo Beti
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o


4. Who wrote the 1948 novel "Cry, the Beloved Country"?
    Amma Darko
    Sembene Ousmane
    Nadine Gordimer
    Alan Paton


5. In "Cry, the Beloved Country", to what city does Stephen Kumalo travel to find his sister?
    Cape Town
    Durban
    Pretoria
    Johannesburg


6. Who wrote the 1962 novel "Ambiguous Adventure"?
    Sembene Ousmane
    Cheikh Hamidou Kane
    Gabriel Okara
    Alan Paton


7. In "Ambiguous Adventure" which member of the Diallobes determines that Samba Diallo must go to the Western School?
    Most Royal Lady
    The chief
    His father, the knight
    The Koranic teacher


8. Sembene Ousmane wrote which of the following novels?
    Wings of Dust
    The Origin of Life and Death
    God's Bits of Wood
    July's People


9. What event does the novel "God's Bits of Wood" chronicle?
    Operation Torch - The British and American landing in Algeria
    Strike on the Dakar-Niger Railroad
    The first Senegalaise national election
    Riots by African dockworkers in Marseilles


10. Who wrote the 1956 novel "Houseboy"?
    Mongo Beti
    Amma Darko
    Nadine Gordimer
    Ferdinand Oyono


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Compiled Jun 28 12