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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. What does Matigari tell Ngarũro wa Kirĩro to tell the factory workers?
(a) They should avoid conflict at all costs.
(b) Matigari has returned.
(c) Not to give up the fight.
(d) Settler Williams and John Boy are dead.

2. What does Matigari tell Gũthera when she offers him "a little pleasure" (24)?
(a) He asks if she thinks that is any way for a woman to behave.
(b) He reminds her they are in the presence of a child.
(c) He thought she would never ask.
(d) He is old enough to be her father.

3. With whom do the children fight for the contents of the tractor in Part I of Matigari?
(a) Stray dogs and vultures.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Elderly homeless people.
(d) Factory workers.

4. What is the title of Part I of Matigari?
(a) The Return of the Patriots.
(b) The Tail of Triumph.
(c) The Last of the Colonial Problems.
(d) Wiping your Tears Away.

5. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?
(a) The murderer.
(b) The drunkard.
(c) The student.
(d) The teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?

2. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?

3. What weapon does Matigari hold at the start of the story?

4. What did Gũthera do to support her siblings after her father's death?

5. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the other prisoners Matigari shares a cell with arrested?

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

3. Describe the cell Matigari is put in after being arrested at John Boy Junior's house.

4. Describe the conversation between Matigari and Gũthera after she offers him "a little pleasure" (24).

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

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

7. What do the other women think about Gũthera's refusal to take money from a cop? What does Gũthera say about money from a cop?

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

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

10. What does Matigari witness children do after running after a tractor?

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