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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. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The murderer.
(c) The student.
(d) The drunkard.

2. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?
(a) He will rot in prison.
(b) He will escape and return to the wilderness.
(c) He will go home the next day.
(d) He will get a good lawyer.

3. With whom do the children fight for the contents of the tractor in Part I of Matigari?
(a) Elderly homeless people.
(b) Stray dogs and vultures.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Factory workers.

4. What does Matigari tell the man outside the house at the plantation that Matigari wants?
(a) To find his family.
(b) The keys to his house.
(c) His horse.
(d) A job.

5. What are children chasing after near the factory in Part I when Matigari first arrives?
(a) A pack of stray dogs.
(b) A ball.
(c) A tractor.
(d) Soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Matigari when Robert Williams returns with two officers?

2. Why does Mũriũki worry the other children might beat him when he returns to the scrapyard?

3. Where does Gũthera suggest Matigari go to search for his family?

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

5. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?

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

3. 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?

4. Describe the cell Matigari is put in after being arrested at John Boy Junior's house.

5. What happens to Gũthera after she leaves the bar? How does Matigari save her?

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

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

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

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

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

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