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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 one of the children accuse Matigari of doing as he follows them?
(a) Trying to steal their gains.
(b) Trying to find a place to sleep.
(c) Working for the police.
(d) Trying to steal one of the children.

2. What is unusual about the day each of the men, including Matigari, was arrested?
(a) They did not give them any food.
(b) The guards did not take anything from them.
(c) The guards forgot to lock the cell.
(d) They were not offered bail.

3. What is the name of the voice Matigari hears over the radio in Part I?
(a) The Voice of Compassion.
(b) The Voice of Truth.
(c) The Voice of Reason.
(d) The Voice of Peace.

4. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?
(a) Drinking a beer.
(b) Yelling at workers.
(c) Napping.
(d) Roasting potatoes.

5. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?
(a) Settler Williams.
(b) His one remaining enemy.
(c) His family.
(d) His fellow soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Voice of Truth say over the radio about women while Matigari is at the bar?

3. What does the boy do when Matigari is pelted with stones outside the factory?

4. What does Mũriũki tell Matigari is happening outside of the bar after he goes out to see why they heard screaming?

5. Who wrote Matigari?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What does Matigari think as he watches two officers, the guard and the tractor driver divvying up the money from the children?

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

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

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

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

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