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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. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?
(a) The police station.
(b) The wilderness to hide.
(c) His house.
(d) The factory to find work.

2. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?
(a) Yelling at workers.
(b) Roasting potatoes.
(c) Napping.
(d) Drinking a beer.

3. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says he had gone to college?
(a) He is impressed to meet an educated Black man.
(b) He feels his education is a sign of progress in their country.
(c) Matigari is one of the group who helped pay for his college.
(d) Matigari went to the same college.

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

5. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?
(a) What happened to law and order in their land.
(b) Where truth and justice has gone in this country.
(c) How Boy and Williams because so powerful.
(d) Why factory workers are so ungrateful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?

2. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

3. What does Matigari see at the start of Part I that makes him think things have changed a great deal in his country since he left?

4. With whom do the children fight for the contents of the tractor in Part I of Matigari?

5. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Matigari hear the Voice of Truth announce about His Excellency Ole Excellence after he leaves the mugomo tree at the start of the novel?

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

5. What does Matigari do at the mugumo tree at the start of the novel?

6. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki he was doing in the woods and why?

7. What does Matigari think as he sees Black Africans driving cars at the start of the story?

8. 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?

9. What does the murderer warn the prisoners, resulting in a fight between him and another prisoner?

10. How does Gũthera decide she can repay Matigari for saving her, despite thinking he may be insane?

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