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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Matigari tell Ngarũro wa Kirĩro to tell the factory workers?
(a) Settler Williams and John Boy are dead.
(b) Not to give up the fight.
(c) Matigari has returned.
(d) They should avoid conflict at all costs.
2. What happens to Matigari when he tries to enter the scrapyard in Part I?
(a) He is offered a place to sleep.
(b) The boys cheer for him.
(c) The boys throw stones at him.
(d) The boys all run away and hide from him.
3. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?
(a) Settler Williams.
(b) His family.
(c) His one remaining enemy.
(d) His fellow soldiers.
4. Who wrote Matigari?
(a) Nuruddin Farah.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) Matigari ma Njirũũngi.
(d) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
5. What is Matigari excited to see as he, Gũthera, and Mũriũki reach the plantation?
(a) His children.
(b) His wives.
(c) His house.
(d) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
6. How does the white man on horseback outside the house know Settler Williams?
(a) He grew up with Settler Williams.
(b) He worked for Settler Williams.
(c) Settler Williams is his father.
(d) He is Settler William's brother-in-law.
7. What weapon does Matigari hold at the start of the story?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A crossbow.
(c) An AK-47.
(d) A grenade.
8. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?
(a) Where truth and justice has gone in this country.
(b) Why factory workers are so ungrateful.
(c) How Boy and Williams because so powerful.
(d) What happened to law and order in their land.
9. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?
(a) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(b) John Boy and Settler Williams.
(c) Matigari's.
(d) Ngarũro wa Kirĩro's.
10. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?
(a) They were all poor too.
(b) They felt she could get a job.
(c) They said she was a terrorist's child.
(d) They thought her family was cursed.
11. What was the teacher in Matigari's cell arrested for teaching?
(a) Sex Education.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Evolution.
12. What does Gũthera tell Matigari happened to her mother?
(a) She left them when she was young.
(b) She died in battle.
(c) She died in childbirth.
(d) She killed herself.
13. Where does Gũthera suggest Matigari go to search for his family?
(a) The scrapyard.
(b) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(c) The plantations.
(d) The police.
14. Who does Gũthera say she is hiding from when she enters the bar in Part I?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her ex-lover.
(d) The cops.
15. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?
(a) The drunkard.
(b) The murderer.
(c) The teacher.
(d) The student.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?
2. Why does the Black man on horseback outside the house whip Matigari when he mentions John Boy?
3. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?
4. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?
5. Who does Matigari say took the gun from him when he pointed it at Settler Williams?
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