FBQ1: Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiongo was published in ________ Answer: 1975 FBQ2: Achebe’s Arrow of God was published in ____________ Answer: 1968 FBQ3: Petals of Blood is set in a remote suburb called _________ Answer: Ilmorog FBQ4: The main characters in Petals of Blood are ______in number Answer: Four FBQ5: The protagonist in Arrow of God is ________ Answer: Ezeulu FBQ6: The antagonist in Arrow of God is _________ Answer: Nwaka FBQ7: The colonial administrator in Arrow of God is __________ Answer: Captain Winterbottom FBQ8: Anti-colonial novels are reactions by African novelists to the evil of _________ Answer: Colonialism FBQ9: Festus Iyayi’s Violence was published in ________ Answer: 1989 FBQ10: The novel titled Kill Me Quick is written by __________ Answer: Meja Mwangi FBQ11: _________the protagonist in Violence is portrayed by Iyayi as deprived and exploited Answer: Idemudia FBQ12: The bourgeois (rich) class in Violence is represented by the ____________ Answer: Obofuns FBQ13: For Iyayi, capitalism is violence and he advocates ________which will usher in a new socio-economic order Answer: Mass revolt FBQ14: Kill Me Quick is set in ____________ Answer: Postcolonial Kenya FBQ15: The novel 26a was written by ________ Answer: Diana Evans FBQ16: The Concubine by Elechi Amadi was published in ___________ Answer: 1966 FBQ17: The Concubine is set in _____near Port Harcourt Answer: Omokachi village FBQ18: The tragic heroine in The Concubine is _________ Answer: Ihuoma FBQ19: _______is the writer of the novel The Icarus Girl Answer: Helen Oyeyemi FBQ20: The novel titled Abiku is written by ___________ Answer: Debo Kotun FBQ21: In The Joys of Motherhood, Nnu Ego’s co wife is______ Answer: Adaku FBQ22: The novel, Wizard of the Crow is written by ……… Answer: Ngugi wa Thiongo FBQ23: The husband of Nnu Ego in The Joys of Motherhood is __________ Answer: Nnaife FBQ24: Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow is set in _______________ Answer: Free Republic of Aburiria FBQ25: The protagonist in Wizard of the Crow is …… Answer: Kamiti FBQ26: The protagonist in Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy is ________ Answer: Ali Banana FBQ27: The Wizard of the Crow was published in _______ Answer: 2006 FBQ28: Camara Laye’s L’Enfant Noir was published in ……… Answer: 1953 FBQ29: Mission to Kala is a novel written by ______________ Answer: Mongo Beti FBQ30: The protagonist in Mission to Kala is ______ Answer: Medza FBQ31: The protagonist in Oyono’s Houseboy is _________ Answer: Toundi FBQ32: The protagonist in Xala written by Sembene Ousmane is ________ Answer: El Hadji Kater Beye FBQ33: Maghrebian literature is made up of the literary works from Algeria, Morocco and _______ Answer: Tunisia FBQ34: The major literary languages of the Maghreb are French Arabic and ____________ Answer: Berber FBQ35: Driss Charaibi’s The Simple Past was published in ________ Answer: 1954 FBQ36: The protagonist in Driss haraibi’s first novel is _______ Answer: Driss Ferdi FBQ37: The narrator in Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men is ________ Answer: Suleiman FBQ38: In the Country of Men is set in __________ Answer: Qadafi’s Libya FBQ39: Chiquinho by Baltasar Lopes da Silva was written in year ______ Answer: 1947 FBQ40: The author of Chiquinho is from _________ Answer: Cape Verde FBQ41: The central character in Ngugi’s The River Between is __________ Answer: Waiyaki FBQ42: The River Between was published in ____________ Answer: 1965 FBQ43: ___________ wrote the novel, From a Crooked Rib Answer: Nuruddin Farah FBQ44: Invisible Chapters is a Nigerian novel set in _________ a Lagos slum Answer: Maroko FBQ45: Invisible Chapters notable for indicting the military rulers in Nigeria is written by _______ Answer: Maik Nwosu FBQ46: Wole Soyinka’s memoir You Must set Forth at Dawn was published in ________ Answer: 2006 FBQ47: The main character in Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat is _________ Answer: Mugo FBQ48: Prison Stories a collection of short stories is written by________ Answer: Helon Habila FBQ49: The memoir of Nnamdi Azikiwe is titled ________ Answer: My Odyssey FBQ50: ______is the author of The Joys of Motherhood Answer: Buchi Emecheta MCQ1: East African novels are dominated by the theme of ………………. Answer: Possession and dispossession of land MCQ2: Until recently, South African novels are dominated by the theme of ……… Answer: Apartheid and racism MCQ3: A common theme in the novels of East and South Africa is…… Answer: Oppression and subjugation MCQ4: Themes of ……..and………..also feature in African novels arising from the struggle for Independence Answer: Heroism and betrayal MCQ5: The first English language African novel written by Ngugi wa Thiongo is titled ….. Answer: Weep Not Child MCQ6: The first Yoruba language novel was written by D.O. Fagunwa in ……. Answer: 1938 MCQ7: ………is African heritage in storytelling, songs and masquerades. Answer: Orature MCQ8: “Pamphlet” is coined from the Greek word “pamphilus” meaning ……… Answer: Loved by all MCQ9: ………is a consistent form of writing made popular by traders or people living in a commercial centre Answer: Market literature MCQ10: The novels of Amos Tutuola and D.O. Fagunwa could be best described as ………. Answer: Written folktales MCQ11: Cyprian Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana the …….import of urbanization on Africans Answer: negative MCQ12: ……….is an example of the novels of rural life in Nigeria Answer: The Concubine MCQ13: Classless novels have settings located both in rural and …….centres Answer: Urban MCQ14: Post-independence African novels are written with commitment to attack anomalies of perpetrated by ruling ……… Answer: African leaders MCQ15: The setting of The Concubine is in …………..community Answer: Omokachi MCQ16: The African personality is degraded by European novelists’ characterization which presented Africans as ……….. Answer: Uncivilized MCQ17: It is difficult to get an African novel without elements of ……..presented in it Answer: Culture MCQ18: Since independence, the question of ………..has been a sensitive issue in Africa Answer: Leadership MCQ19: Bernardo Honwana’s We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories is an example of …… Answer: Lusophone African fiction MCQ20: ………..is a major theme in Weep Not Child Answer: Conflict MCQ21: The main character in Ngugi’s Weep Not Child is ………… Answer: Njoroge MCQ22: The politics of land features in Peter Abraham’s ………… Answer: Mine Boy MCQ23: Alex La Guma, a South African anti-apartheid novelist was classified as …………. Answer: Coloured MCQ24: The protagonist in Mine Boy by Peter Abraham is ……………. Answer: Xuma MCQ25: A Walk in the Night is set in a ……..in Cape Town Answer: Hotel MCQ26: Ekwensi’s People of the City was written …………Achebe Things Fall Apart Answer: Before MCQ27: In People of the City the city is presented as …………… Answer: Symbol of negativity MCQ28: Africans who practice……….exhibited excesses in People of the City Answer: Western lifestyle MCQ29: In the novel Abiku we see military politics destroying every aspect of ………thereby destroying the peoples’ well being Answer: Human rights MCQ30: The husband of Nnu Ego in The Joys of Motherhood made her a woman according to Ibo tradition because ………………….. Answer: She got children through him MCQ31: The government official who escaped during the military coup in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is ……………….. Answer: Koomson MCQ32: The trickster character in African traditional tales appears in West African tales as…….. Answer: Tortoise MCQ33: The Ibo society in The Joys of Motherhood is a………………..society Answer: Patriarchal MCQ34: The African Child by Camara Laye was translated into an American edition titled…. Answer: The Dark Child MCQ35: Which of the following is not a war novel? Answer: None of the options MCQ36: African novels of the post-independence era depict all but …. Answer: Efficient civil service MCQ37: Which is not a major bloc of the African novel? Answer: None of the options MCQ38: The main characters in Wizard of the Crow, Nyawira and Kamiti are ……characters representing black pride versus class struggle Answer: Stereotype MCQ39: Obi Okonkwo in Achebe’s No Longer At Ease is grandson of Okonkwo in his earlier novel titled …………. Answer: Things Fall Apart MCQ40: The most debilitating illness which afflict the rich in Wizard of the Crow is ……. Answer: Whiteache MCQ41: Isidore Okpewho’s novel The Last Duty may be best described as a ………novel Answer: War MCQ42: Which of the following does not belong to Francophone African Fiction? Answer: The Marriage of Anansewa by Ama Ata Aidoo MCQ43: The tower proposed to be built by three ministers for the ruler in Wizard of the Crow was to be named …………. Answer: Marching to Heaven MCQ44: Obi Okonkwo was arrested at the end of No Longer At Ease for ………. Answer: Collecting bribe MCQ45: Achebe’s A Man of the People was tagged a prophetic novel as it ………… Answer: Predicted military takeover of government in Nigeria MCQ46: The narrator in A Man of the People is ………. Answer: Odili MCQ47: The military dictator in Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah is …….. Answer: Sam MCQ48: The protesters against the military rulers of Kangan in Anthills of the Savannah are from the province of …… Answer: Abazon MCQ49: The Concubine presents pure African religious realities ……..colonial time Answer: Before MCQ50: African novels with Marxist base do not include………………. Answer: None of the options