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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?

2. What is Gũthera surprised to learn Matigari does not know as they walk to a plantation?

3. What does John Boy Junior say Matigari must show him in order to prove the house is his?

4. What does the Voice of Truth say over the radio about women while Matigari is at the bar?

5. What happens to Matigari when he tries to enter the scrapyard in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Gũthera after she leaves the bar? How does Matigari save her?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does the boy named Mũriũki help Matigari after the boys throw stones at him?

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

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

9. What does Matigari think as he watches two officers, the guard and the tractor driver divvying up the money from the children?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Ngũgĩ’s focus on the theme of colonialism in Matigari.

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a category assigned to a literary work, like a novel. What are some genres that could be used to classify the novel? What is the main genre of the novel? Explain.

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