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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Divying up the money the children gave them.
(c) Arresting children at random.
(d) Digging through the pile of trash.

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

5. What is the title of Part I of Matigari?
(a) The Return of the Patriots.
(b) The Last of the Colonial Problems.
(c) The Tail of Triumph.
(d) Wiping your Tears Away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says he had gone to college?

2. What is the mugumo?

3. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?

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

5. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is at the house which Matigari says is his when Gũthera leads him to the plantation? What does Matigari do there which surprises Gũthera and Mũriũki?

3. 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?

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

5. What does Matigari witness children do after running after a tractor?

6. What does Matigari think as he sees Black Africans driving cars at the start of the story?

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

8. What does Matigari think of as he watches a riderless horse pass him at the start of the novel?

9. What does Mũriũki tell Matigari happened to his mother as they sit at the Mataha hotel?

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

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