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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?
(a) He unearths a treasure.
(b) He eats and rests.
(c) He waits for the enemy.
(d) He buries his weapons.

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

5. Who does Gũthera say she is hiding from when she enters the bar in Part I?
(a) Her ex-lover.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The cops.
(d) Her children.

6. What does Gũthera tell Matigari happened to her mother?
(a) She died in battle.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She died in childbirth.
(d) She left them when she was young.

7. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?
(a) Gũthera.
(b) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(c) Robert Wiliams.
(d) Matigari's wife.

8. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?
(a) He has has to pick up his children from school.
(b) He promised his wife he would meet her for dinner.
(c) He is too tired.
(d) He needs to join the worker's strike.

9. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?
(a) They felt she could get a job.
(b) They said she was a terrorist's child.
(c) They thought her family was cursed.
(d) They were all poor too.

10. What does Gũthera ask Matigari after sitting on his lap at the bar?
(a) If he will marry her.
(b) If he will buy her a drink.
(c) If he owns the bar.
(d) If he is the Matigari who fought Settler Williams.

11. What are the two guards, policemen, and tractor driver doing when Matigari passes them as he follows the children?
(a) Divying up the money the children gave them.
(b) Drinking beer and laughing.
(c) Digging through the pile of trash.
(d) Arresting children at random.

12. Who wrote Matigari?
(a) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(b) Nuruddin Farah.
(c) Matigari ma Njirũũngi.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

13. What happened after Gũthera refused to give the officer what he asked for when her father was arrested?
(a) An anonymous person paid her father's bail.
(b) Her father broke out and she never saw him again.
(c) A judge deemed her father innocent and he was set free.
(d) Her father was killed and their land confiscated.

14. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?
(a) The guards beat them.
(b) The other children help them pay.
(c) They cannot eat.
(d) They sneak in anyway.

15. What does Matigari share with his cell mates?
(a) Some money.
(b) Beer and food.
(c) A blanket.
(d) His cigarettes.

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

3. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?

4. What is Matigari excited to see as he, Gũthera, and Mũriũki reach the plantation?

5. Why does Gũthera decide to help Matigari despite thinking he might be insane?

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