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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 prisoners tell Matigari and the others he saw as he walked away from the factory during the strike?
(a) Statues of Boy and Williams go up in flames.
(b) Police officers beating Ngarũro wa Kirĩro.
(c) The factory explode.
(d) Workers running for their lives.

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 if Matigari knows Settler Wiliam's son.
(c) She asks why he would kill such a great man.
(d) She asks who Settler Williams is.

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

4. What is the mugumo?
(a) A fig tree.
(b) An olive tree.
(c) A banana tree.
(d) A pineapple tree.

5. What does Matigari share with his cell mates?
(a) Some money.
(b) A blanket.
(c) His cigarettes.
(d) Beer and food.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the white man on horseback outside the house know Settler Williams?

4. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?

5. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why were the other prisoners Matigari shares a cell with arrested?

8. How do the men on horseback know Settler Williams and John Boy? What do they think happened to the men?

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

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

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