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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?
2. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?
3. Who does Gũthera say she is hiding from when she enters the bar in Part I?
4. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?
5. What is the main topic of conversation at the bar when Matigari enters with Mũriũki?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Matigari when he does not heed the boy's warning not to enter the scrapyard?
2. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki happened the day he told Settler Williams he could not longer reap the rewards of Matigari's labor?
3. How do the men on horseback know Settler Williams and John Boy? What do they think happened to the men?
4. What does Matigari think as he sees Black Africans driving cars at the start of the story?
5. What does Matigari do at the mugumo tree at the start of the novel?
6. How does the boy named Mũriũki help Matigari after the boys throw stones at him?
7. What does one of the prisoners describe seeing and hearing at the factory strike that he walked away from earlier that day?
8. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says his father sent him to school?
9. 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?
10. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki he was doing in the woods and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing the imagery used in Matigari. Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.
Essay Topic 2
Choose a character and discuss their role in creating conflict in the story.
Essay Topic 3
Examine the use of dialogue versus the use of description. Look at how each is used in the novel and what makes these uses effective or ineffective.
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