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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. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says he had gone to college?
(a) He is impressed to meet an educated Black man.
(b) Matigari is one of the group who helped pay for his college.
(c) Matigari went to the same college.
(d) He feels his education is a sign of progress in their country.

2. What are the children fighting over when Matigari chases them away with a stick?
(a) A bundle of shoelaces.
(b) A pile of old newspapers.
(c) A case of bananas.
(d) A bunch of shirts.

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

4. Who did Gũthera consult with before telling the officer whether or not she would do what he suggested she do in order to save her father's life?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her siblings.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her priest.

5. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?
(a) John Boy and Settler Williams.
(b) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(c) Matigari's.
(d) Ngarũro wa Kirĩro's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?

2. What is Gũthera surprised to learn Matigari does not know as they walk to a plantation?

3. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?

4. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?

5. What happens to Matigari when he tries to enter the scrapyard in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Matigari think of as he watches a riderless horse pass him at the start of the novel?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Describe the conversation between Matigari and Gũthera after she offers him "a little pleasure" (24).

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