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

2. What was the teacher in Matigari's cell arrested for teaching?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Sex Education.

3. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?
(a) Selling milk and stealing food from a restaurant.
(b) Stealing a Mercedes and speaking against His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(c) Beating his wife and public drunkenness.
(d) Taking a day off of work and stealing a woman's purse.

4. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?
(a) The loyalists who served the king.
(b) The expatriates who ditched the country.
(c) The patriots who survived the bullets.
(d) The comrades who fought for freedom.

5. What does Matigari make with a strip of bark from the mugomo tree?
(a) A sword.
(b) A belt of peace.
(c) A hat.
(d) A small fire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Matigari tell Gũthera when she offers him "a little pleasure" (24)?

3. At the scrapyard in Part I, what does the boy tell Matigari happened to his father?

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

5. What happened after Gũthera refused to give the officer what he asked for when her father was arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the murderer warn the prisoners, resulting in a fight between him and another prisoner?

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

3. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki happened the day he told Settler Williams he could not longer reap the rewards of Matigari's labor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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