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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 not bringing any food.
(d) For showing Matigari where they live.

2. What does Gũthera ask when Matigari tells her that Settler Williams is dead?
(a) She asks what Matigari did with the body.
(b) She asks who Settler Williams is.
(c) She asks if Matigari knows Settler Wiliam's son.
(d) She asks why he would kill such a great man.

3. What does the boy do when Matigari is pelted with stones outside the factory?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He finds a worker to help him.
(c) He runs away and hides in the scrapyard.
(d) He joins the children in throwing stones at him.

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

5. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?
(a) Matigari's wife.
(b) Gũthera.
(c) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) Robert Wiliams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gũthera tell Matigari happened to her mother?

2. What happens to Matigari when he tries to enter the scrapyard in Part I?

3. Why does Gũthera decide to help Matigari despite thinking he might be insane?

4. What did Gũthera do to support her siblings after her father's death?

5. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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