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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. What happens to Matigari when he tries to enter the scrapyard in Part I?
(a) The boys all run away and hide from him.
(b) The boys cheer for him.
(c) The boys throw stones at him.
(d) He is offered a place to sleep.

2. 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) Matigari's.
(d) His Excellency Ole Excellence.

3. What weapon does Matigari hold at the start of the story?
(a) A grenade.
(b) An AK-47.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A crossbow.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the white man on horseback outside the house know Settler Williams?

2. What does Matigari make with a strip of bark from the mugomo tree?

3. What are the two guards, policemen, and tractor driver doing when Matigari passes them as he follows the children?

4. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?

5. What is the mugumo?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the boy named Mũriũki help Matigari after the boys throw stones at him?

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

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

5. Describe the scrapyard that the man follows the boys to after watching them dig through garbage.

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

7. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki he was doing in the woods and why?

8. Who is Gũthera and why does she run into the bar at the Mataha hotel where Matigari and Mũriũki first stop?

9. How do the men on horseback know Settler Williams and John Boy? What do they think happened to the men?

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

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