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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?
(a) Where truth and justice has gone in this country.
(b) What happened to law and order in their land.
(c) How Boy and Williams because so powerful.
(d) Why factory workers are so ungrateful.

4. What is the country's leader referred to over the radio in Part I?
(a) The Honorable Ole Master.
(b) The Embodiment of Truth and Compassion.
(c) His Excellency Ole Excellency.
(d) Ole Master of Wonder.

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

6. At the scrapyard in Part I, what does the boy tell Matigari happened to his father?
(a) They got separated and the boy has been looking for his father ever since.
(b) He left the country long ago.
(c) He went blind.
(d) He died fighting for independence.

7. What does one of the prisoners tell Matigari and the others he saw as he walked away from the factory during the strike?
(a) Police officers beating Ngarũro wa Kirĩro.
(b) The factory explode.
(c) Statues of Boy and Williams go up in flames.
(d) Workers running for their lives.

8. 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.

9. What was Gũthera's 11th commandment?
(a) She would never return to church.
(b) She would never sleep with an officer.
(c) She would never let her siblings go hungry.
(d) She would never confess to a priest.

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the voice Matigari hears over the radio in Part I?
(a) The Voice of Truth.
(b) The Voice of Compassion.
(c) The Voice of Reason.
(d) The Voice of Peace.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main topic of conversation at the bar when Matigari enters with Mũriũki?

2. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?

3. Which prisoner tells Matigari he will "unravel" the "riddle," referring to the question Matigari asked the other prisoners?

4. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?

5. What is the first place Matigari decides he should search for his family in Part I?

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