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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. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?
(a) His house.
(b) The wilderness to hide.
(c) The factory to find work.
(d) The police station.

2. What is Matigari surprised at when he is at the bar at the Mataha hotel?
(a) Nobody else is there.
(b) His family is there.
(c) Women work there.
(d) The prices are super high.

3. 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 were all poor too.
(d) They felt she could get a job.

4. What did an officer tell Gũthera she could do to save her father's life after he was arrested?
(a) Give him money.
(b) Give him their home.
(c) Help her father break out of prison.
(d) Give him her virginity.

5. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?
(a) Ngarũro wa Kirĩro's.
(b) John Boy and Settler Williams.
(c) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) Matigari's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?

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

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

4. What do the prisoners ask Matigari when he tells them his full name?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What story of her past does Gũthera share with Matigari after he saves her?

2. What does Matigari do at the mugumo tree at the start of the novel?

3. What does one of the prisoners describe seeing and hearing at the factory strike that he walked away from earlier that day?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does John Boy Junior tell Matigari the problem with Black people is after Matigari says he helped pay for John Boy Junior's education? Why does John Boy Junior believe white people are able to advance?

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

9. What does Matigari hear the Voice of Truth announce about His Excellency Ole Excellence after he leaves the mugomo tree at the start of the novel?

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

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