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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 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.

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

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

4. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?
(a) He has has to pick up his children from school.
(b) He promised his wife he would meet her for dinner.
(c) He needs to join the worker's strike.
(d) He is too tired.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part I of Matigari?

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

3. What does Matigari tell the man outside the house at the plantation that Matigari wants?

4. What was the teacher in Matigari's cell arrested for teaching?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Matigari when he does not heed the boy's warning not to enter the scrapyard?

4. 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?

5. How does Gũthera decide she can repay Matigari for saving her, despite thinking he may be insane?

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

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. 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?

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

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

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