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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 Gũthera tell Matigari happened to her mother?
(a) She died in childbirth.
(b) She died in battle.
(c) She left them when she was young.
(d) She killed herself.

2. Why does Mũriũki worry the other children might beat him when he returns to the scrapyard?
(a) For not paying the guards.
(b) For not bringing any food.
(c) For showing Matigari where they live.
(d) For being an informer.

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

4. Which prisoner tells Matigari he will "unravel" the "riddle," referring to the question Matigari asked the other prisoners?
(a) The drunkard.
(b) The prisoner accused of theft.
(c) The informer.
(d) The murderer.

5. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?
(a) The student.
(b) The teacher.
(c) The murderer.
(d) The drunkard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?

2. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?

3. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

4. What do the two guards require from the children before allowing them entry in Part I of Matigari?

5. What does Matigari tell the man outside the house at the plantation that Matigari wants?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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