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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 are the two guards, policemen, and tractor driver doing when Matigari passes them as he follows the children?
(a) Drinking beer and laughing.
(b) Digging through the pile of trash.
(c) Divying up the money the children gave them.
(d) Arresting children at random.

2. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?
(a) They felt she could get a job.
(b) They were all poor too.
(c) They said she was a terrorist's child.
(d) They thought her family was cursed.

3. What is Gũthera surprised to learn Matigari does not know as they walk to a plantation?
(a) He does not know how to get to the nearest plantation.
(b) He does not know officers have been fighting workers and students for years.
(c) He does not know about His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) He does not know that most of the factories have shut down.

4. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?
(a) The police station.
(b) The wilderness to hide.
(c) His house.
(d) The factory to find work.

5. What does Gũthera ask Matigari after sitting on his lap at the bar?
(a) If he is the Matigari who fought Settler Williams.
(b) If he will buy her a drink.
(c) If he will marry her.
(d) If he owns the bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the prisoners ask Matigari when he tells them his full name?

2. What is the title of Part I of Matigari?

3. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?

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

5. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scrapyard that the man follows the boys to after watching them dig through garbage.

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

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

4. Who is at the house which Matigari says is his when Gũthera leads him to the plantation? What does Matigari do there which surprises Gũthera and Mũriũki?

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

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

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

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

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

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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