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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?
(a) For allowing his daughter to get an education.
(b) For carrying bullets in his Bible.
(c) For speaking out against the country's leader.
(d) For beating his wife.

2. What is the main topic of conversation at the bar when Matigari enters with Mũriũki?
(a) The mysterious Matigari.
(b) The factory strike.
(c) How much better the country is these days.
(d) Women complaining about their husbands.

3. What happens to Matigari when he tries to enter the scrapyard in Part I?
(a) The boys throw stones at him.
(b) The boys cheer for him.
(c) He is offered a place to sleep.
(d) The boys all run away and hide from him.

4. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?
(a) Beating his wife and public drunkenness.
(b) Selling milk and stealing food from a restaurant.
(c) Stealing a Mercedes and speaking against His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) Taking a day off of work and stealing a woman's purse.

5. What does Matigari tell the man outside the house at the plantation that Matigari wants?
(a) A job.
(b) His horse.
(c) To find his family.
(d) The keys to his house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Matigari say took the gun from him when he pointed it at Settler Williams?

2. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?

3. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?

4. What was the teacher in Matigari's cell arrested for teaching?

5. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the men on horseback know Settler Williams and John Boy? What do they think happened to the men?

2. What does Matigari think of as he watches a riderless horse pass him at the start of the novel?

3. What story of her past does Gũthera share with Matigari after he saves her?

4. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki happened the day he told Settler Williams he could not longer reap the rewards of Matigari's labor?

5. Who is Gũthera and why does she run into the bar at the Mataha hotel where Matigari and Mũriũki first stop?

6. What does one of the prisoners describe seeing and hearing at the factory strike that he walked away from earlier that day?

7. Who is at the house which Matigari says is his when Gũthera leads him to the plantation? What does Matigari do there which surprises Gũthera and Mũriũki?

8. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says his father sent him to school?

9. What does Mũriũki tell Matigari happened to his mother as they sit at the Mataha hotel?

10. Describe the scrapyard that the man follows the boys to after watching them dig through garbage.

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