Question FBQ1 : African literature has a(n) ———– beginning
Answer: Oral
Question FBQ2 : One major problem of African fiction is ————
Answer: Categorization
Question FBQ3 : African novelists who wrote in colonial and immediate postcolonial era remained ——– to majority of the African people
Answer: Inaccessible
Question FBQ4 : Traditional African ———– chronicled community history
Answer: Griots
Question FBQ5 : Onitsha Market Literature seized to exist in ———-
Answer: 1975
Question FBQ6 : African novels set in both rural and urban environments include Buchi Emecheta’s ———-
Answer: The Joys of Motherhood
Question FBQ7 : Popular African novels that attempt to correct the distorted picture painted of African personality by Europeans include ——– by Chinua Achebe
Answer: Things Fall Apart
Question FBQ8 : Ezeulu in Arrow of God sends his son —— to the whiteman’s church to acquire their power
Answer: Oduche
Question FBQ9 : In A Man of the people, ————- represents the breed of old politicians
Answer: Chief Nanga
Question FBQ10 : In Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Bassa is the capital of ———-
Answer: Kangan
Question FBQ11 : In Anthills of the Savannah, Chris served as ————– under the military President Sam
Answer: Commissioner for Information
Question FBQ12 : Ikem was Editor of ———— the government newspaper in Anthills of the Savannah
Answer: National Gazette
Question FBQ13 : In Festus Iyayi’s Violence ——- is the protagonist
Answer: Idemudia
Question FBQ14 : Class discrimination is seen even in dispensation of ———— in Iyayi’s Violence
Answer: Healthcare
Question FBQ15 : For Iyayi, capitalism is ———- and violence must be answered with violence
Answer: Violence
Question FBQ16 : The protagonist in Kill Me Quick by Meja Mwangi is ————–
Answer: Meja
Question FBQ17 : The novel The Beggars Strike is written by ————–
Answer: Aminata Sow Fall
Question FBQ18 : Devil on the Cross is a novel written by ————————
Answer: Ngugi wa Thiongo
Question FBQ19 : Novels which attack the imbalance in politics and economy of African societies are ———-
Answer: Marxist inclined
Question FBQ20 : Writers of the new novels in Africa unlike early Chinua Achebe, Soyinka, Camara Laye, while reshaping Africa’s distorted history, culture and civilization, do not ———— them
Answer: Idealize
Question FBQ21 : ———- the protagonist in Purple Hibiscus acknowledges Amaka’s potentials for the future.
Answer: Kambili
Question FBQ22 : Military rule in Nigeria and the regime of ——– is also satirized in Purple Hibiscus
Answer: General Sani Abacha
Question FBQ23 : Rebeka Njau in The Sacred Seed through the African-American ——- preaches reparation
Answer: Ellen
Question FBQ24 : The protagonist in The Sacred Seed, an exposition of patriarchal political dominance in Kenya is ————–
Answer: Tesa
Question FBQ25 : Which is not a character in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow: Sisi, Sergio, Zuma, Lolo,
Answer: Zuma
Question FBQ26 : Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow is set in ——- of Nigeria
Answer: Delta Region
Question FBQ27 : The Last Duty is a war novel written by ————
Answer: Isidore Okpewho
Question FBQ28 : The technical style of narration adopted by the writer of The Last Duty is ————
Answer: collective evidence
Question FBQ29 : Out of Chief Toje, Oshevire, Kambili, Aku, only ——— is not a character in The Last Duty.
Answer: Kambili
Question FBQ30 : The author of the comic tale, Burma Boy is ———-
Answer: Biyi Bandele
Question FBQ31 : Which of Major Ali, Ali Banana and Sergeant Damisa is not a character in Burma Boy?
Answer: Major Ali
Question FBQ32 : The two heroes in Burma Boy are Sergeant Damisa and ————
Answer: Wingate
Question FBQ33 : The protagonist in Burma Boy is 14-year old ————
Answer: Ali Banana
Question FBQ34 : Negritude was criticized for adulation of ————
Answer: Blackness
Question FBQ35 : Houseboy is the story about ————- a boy who flees his father’s brutality to become a houseboy of a priest
Answer: Toundi Joseph
Question FBQ36 : Characters in Houseboy do not include Father Gilbert, Mendim, El Hadji and M. Moreau
Answer: El Hadji
Question FBQ37 : The writer of Houseboy is ———-
Answer: Ferdinand Oyono
Question FBQ38 : Houseboy is structured like a ————
Answer: Diary
Question FBQ39 : Xala is set in ———- the capital of Senegal
Answer: Dakar
Question FBQ40 : Xala is about the wide gap created by western education among Africans. El Hadji represents the ———-
Answer: Educated
Question FBQ41 : Maghrebian literature is the literature of three countries namely, Algeria, Tunisia, and ——-
Answer: Morocco
Question FBQ42 : ‘Maghreb’ is Arabic word for ——-
Answer: Morocco
Question FBQ43 : ————– wrote Le Passe simple or The Simple Past which was published in 1954
Answer: Driss Charaibi
Question FBQ44 : The protagonist in The Simple Past is ————
Answer: Driss Ferdi
Question FBQ45 : A strange phenomenon called ———- addresses the protagonist in The Simple Past.
Answer: Thin Line
Question FBQ46 : The author of In the Country of Men is ———————
Answer: Hisham Matar
Question FBQ47 : ————— is the narrator of In the Country of Men
Answer: Suleiman
Question FBQ48 : ————– is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Answer: Laila Lalami
Question FBQ49 : Faten, Murad, Aziz and Halima are characters in Hope and Other ——–
Answer: Dangerous Pursuits
Question FBQ50 : In the Country of Men is set in —————
Answer: Libya
Question MCQ1 : The major problems of classification that confront the African novel are those of ____and______
Answer: Identification and definition
Question MCQ2 : The African novel is reputed to have ____ideological dispositions that trail its identity.
Answer: various
Question MCQ3 : African novelists often made oral tradition and legends their _______
Answer: Springboard
Question MCQ4 : Traditionally, Africans do not radically separate art from______
Answer: Singing
Question MCQ5 : The African novel unlike its English counterpart was popular for advancing_______
Answer: Subjects relevant to traditional and modern African values
Question MCQ6 : In Festus Iyayi’s Violence the capitalist Nigerian employer is represented by____
Answer: Queen Obofun
Question MCQ7 : Meja Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick is set in _______
Answer: Kenya
Question MCQ8 : Marxist attacks on the political anomalies of post-independence African states are spearheaded by writers like Ngugi wa Thiongo in _________
Answer: Devil on the Cross
Question MCQ9 : Debo Kotun’s novel _______ reconstructs the Yoruba myth to depict how the military rulers have ravaged and devalued Nigeria.
Answer: Abiku
Question MCQ10 : Debo Kotun experiments with fusing history into fiction as he weaves the story making subtle references to Africa’s ______ rulers
Answer: military
Question MCQ11 : Mariama Ba is calling on women to take responsibility for their lives but ______ believes a woman is worth anything if she becomes a mother
Answer: Buchi Emecheta
Question MCQ12 : Okpewho’s _________ presents the experiences of actors in Nigeria’s Civil War
Answer: The Last Duty
Question MCQ13 : Lusophone African fiction comprises fiction from ____ former colonies
Answer: Portugal’s
Question MCQ14 : Lusophone literature does not include those from _____
Answer: Senegal
Question MCQ15 : The cultural placements of women in Senegal are revealed in ___ by Sembene Ousmane
Answer: God’s Bits of Woods
Question MCQ16 : In ‘So Long a Letter’ ____presents the ill-treatment of women in the Senegalese society
Answer: Mariama Ba
Question MCQ17 : In Festus Iyayi’s Violence, the hero ________and his friends lay bare the plight of the Nigerian worker
Answer: Idemudia
Question MCQ18 : Depriving the natives of their land led to resistance against the whites in Kenya as depicted in ____ by Ngugi
Answer: A Grain of Wheat
Question MCQ19 : _______ was associated with struggle for freedom in Kenya
Answer: Mau Mau
Question MCQ20 : The protagonist in Ngugi’s Weep Not Child is _________
Answer: The young boy Njoroge
Question MCQ21 : In A Man of the People, Odili represents the young politicians while_____ represents the old generation of politicians
Answer: Chief Nanga
Question MCQ22 : Anthills of the Savannah is set in _________
Answer: Kangan
Question MCQ23 : The President of the country where Anthills of the Savannah is set is ______
Answer: Sam
Question MCQ24 : The plight of the new independent government in Anthills… is that the rulers soon _____
Answer: Distanced themselves from the people
Question MCQ25 : Petals of Blood is about anti-colonial disillusionment of ______ after Uhuru .
Answer: Kenyans
Question MCQ26 : The story in Petals of Blood is set in ______, a small remote village
Answer: Ilmorog
Question MCQ27 : The major characters in Petals of Blood include the following except _________
Answer: Ihuoma
Question MCQ28 : The arch-rival of Ezeulu in Arrow of God is _____ the Chief Priest of Idemili
Answer: Nwaka
Question MCQ29 : Ezeulu is the Chief Priest of ____ the god of Umuaro
Answer: Ulu
Question MCQ30 : South African novels until recently presented a society caught in the throes of the evil called apartheid as exemplified in Peter Abraham’s __________
Answer: Tell Freedom
Question MCQ31 : Post-Independence African novelists embraced _______ to attack indigenous politicians and their misplacement of values in governance
Answer: Satire
Question MCQ32 : After Independence, African novelists were concerned about how the politicians dwelt in bribery and corruption as Ayi Kwei Armah depicted in ______
Answer: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Question MCQ33 : An African rural novel is _____ written by Elechi Amadi who died this year at 97yrs
Answer: The Concubine
Question MCQ34 : The negative impact of colonialism on rural life in Africa is best depicted in Chinua Achebe’s ________
Answer: Things Fall Apart
Question MCQ35 : Colonial masters in Africa started developing urban settlements propping up negative vices such as prostitution, a major subject in the novel _____________
Answer: Jagua Nana
Question MCQ36 : The urbanization that came as colonialists were settling in Africa led to the writing of novels that depicted city life. ________was popular for writing ‘city novels’
Answer: Cyprian Ekwensi
Question MCQ37 : In African literature pamphleteering was associated with _________
Answer: Market literature
Question MCQ38 : Early African novelists include all but one of the following
Answer: Chimamanda Adichie
Question MCQ39 : Early African novelists started the writing of African ______ as literature
Answer: orature
Question MCQ40 : Epic narratives are among the earliest forms of legendary fictions in Africa. Which of the following is not an example of them?
Answer: Origin of Ulu in Arrow of God
Question MCQ41 : Amos Tutuola’s ________ is an embodiment of African orature in the written form
Answer: The Palmwine Drinkard
Question MCQ42 : _______ are animal stories which theme and structure have been largely adopted by writers of African novels
Answer: Fables
Question MCQ43 : Stories about those who founded a community are called _________
Answer: legends
Question MCQ44 : Myths are stories of ______________
Answer: Origin/creation
Question MCQ45 : African oral narrative forms has three genres namely:
Answer: What is sung, what is spoken, what is acted
Question MCQ46 : Oral tradition of story-telling is one of the ways of ________
Answer: transmitting African value systems into the coming generations
Question MCQ47 : Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is an example of ________
Answer: None of these
Question MCQ48 : Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary is an example of _________
Answer: African fiction by Non Africans
Question MCQ49 : In defining what constitutes African fiction which of the following is totally unacceptable into the categorization?
Answer: None of these
Question MCQ50 : The major disadvantage of writing African fiction in native dialects is that _______
Answer: the works are limited in accessibility
