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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro?
(a) The owner of the factory.
(b) A worker who helps Matigari.
(c) The country's leader.
(d) A man who fought with Matigari.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Where does Gũthera suggest Matigari go to search for his family?
(a) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(b) The plantations.
(c) The scrapyard.
(d) The police.

6. How does Matigari know when the factory workers have breaks?
(a) He can hear the workers shouting outside.
(b) The children run to the factory during each break.
(c) A siren blares.
(d) Matigari has a watch and knows what time breaks occur.

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

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

9. What is unusual about the day each of the men, including Matigari, was arrested?
(a) The guards did not take anything from them.
(b) They were not offered bail.
(c) The guards forgot to lock the cell.
(d) They did not give them any food.

10. What do the two guards require from the children before allowing them entry in Part I of Matigari?
(a) Money.
(b) Beer.
(c) Food.
(d) A hug.

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

12. What do the prisoners ask Matigari when he tells them his full name?
(a) If he is the one who saved the woman from the officer's dogs earlier.
(b) If he is the one who started the factory strike.
(c) If he is the one who killed Settler Wiliams.
(d) If he is an angel.

13. What happens to Matigari when Robert Williams returns with two officers?
(a) He is taken to jail.
(b) The officers allow John Boy Junior and Robert Williams to beat him.
(c) He runs back to the wilderness.
(d) He gently explains what is going on and they leave.

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

15. 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?
(a) Female soldiers riding horseback.
(b) Black Africans driving cars.
(c) American fast food restaurants.
(d) White people chauffeuring Black Africans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?

2. What does Gũthera ask Matigari after sitting on his lap at the bar?

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

4. Who did Gũthera consult with before telling the officer whether or not she would do what he suggested she do in order to save her father's life?

5. What is the country's leader referred to over the radio in Part I?

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