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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 do the prisoners ask Matigari when he tells them his full name?
(a) If he is the one who killed Settler Wiliams.
(b) If he is an angel.
(c) If he is the one who started the factory strike.
(d) If he is the one who saved the woman from the officer's dogs earlier.

2. Why does the Black man on horseback outside the house whip Matigari when he mentions John Boy?
(a) It is illegal to talk about John Boy.
(b) John Boy is his father.
(c) He did not want Matigari to speak at all.
(d) He hates John Boy.

3. What does Matigari see at the start of Part I that makes him think things have changed a great deal in his country since he left?
(a) Female soldiers riding horseback.
(b) White people chauffeuring Black Africans.
(c) Black Africans driving cars.
(d) American fast food restaurants.

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

5. What is the main topic of conversation at the bar when Matigari enters with Mũriũki?
(a) The factory strike.
(b) How much better the country is these days.
(c) Women complaining about their husbands.
(d) The mysterious Matigari.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matigari share with his cell mates?

2. What does Gũthera ask Matigari after sitting on his lap at the bar?

3. What does Matigari tell Ngarũro wa Kirĩro to tell the factory workers?

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

5. What does one of the prisoners tell Matigari and the others he saw as he walked away from the factory during the strike?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Gũthera and why does she run into the bar at the Mataha hotel where Matigari and Mũriũki first stop?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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