View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mũriũki worry the other children might beat him when he returns to the scrapyard?
(a) For not bringing any food.
(b) For not paying the guards.
(c) For being an informer.
(d) For showing Matigari where they live.

3. What does one of the children accuse Matigari of doing as he follows them?
(a) Working for the police.
(b) Trying to steal one of the children.
(c) Trying to find a place to sleep.
(d) Trying to steal their gains.

4. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?
(a) He will get a good lawyer.
(b) He will rot in prison.
(c) He will go home the next day.
(d) He will escape and return to the wilderness.

5. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?
(a) Captain Johnson.
(b) Settler Wiliams.
(c) Private Jefferson.
(d) Colonel Warren.

6. What does Mũriũki tell Matigari is happening outside of the bar after he goes out to see why they heard screaming?
(a) The factory strike has turned into a bloodbath.
(b) Two officers set a dog on Gũthera.
(c) His Excellency Ole Excellence has arrived.
(d) There was a major car accident.

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

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

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

10. What are children chasing after near the factory in Part I when Matigari first arrives?
(a) A ball.
(b) A pack of stray dogs.
(c) A tractor.
(d) Soldiers.

11. What is Gũthera surprised to learn Matigari does not know as they walk to a plantation?
(a) He does not know about His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(b) He does not know officers have been fighting workers and students for years.
(c) He does not know how to get to the nearest plantation.
(d) He does not know that most of the factories have shut down.

12. What does John Boy Junior say Matigari must show him in order to prove the house is his?
(a) His hands.
(b) The deed.
(c) The blueprint.
(d) Some cash.

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

14. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?
(a) His fellow soldiers.
(b) Settler Williams.
(c) His family.
(d) His one remaining enemy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?

2. 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?

3. What is unusual about the day each of the men, including Matigari, was arrested?

4. What does Matigari tell Gũthera when she offers him "a little pleasure" (24)?

5. What did an officer tell Gũthera she could do to save her father's life after he was arrested?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 714 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample