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

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

3. What does John Boy Junior say Matigari must show him in order to prove the house is his?
(a) The blueprint.
(b) Some cash.
(c) The deed.
(d) His hands.

4. What does Matigari tell the man outside the house at the plantation that Matigari wants?
(a) To find his family.
(b) A job.
(c) His horse.
(d) The keys to his house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are children chasing after near the factory in Part I when Matigari first arrives?

2. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

3. Who is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro?

4. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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