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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 was the teacher in Matigari's cell arrested for teaching?

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

3. What happens to Matigari when Robert Williams returns with two officers?

4. What does Matigari tell Ngarũro wa Kirĩro to tell the factory workers?

5. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does John Boy Junior tell Matigari the problem with Black people is after Matigari says he helped pay for John Boy Junior's education? Why does John Boy Junior believe white people are able to advance?

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

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 the murderer warn the prisoners, resulting in a fight between him and another prisoner?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the central purpose of this story. What response do you think the author hoped to get from his readers? Do you think he was successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the imagery used in Matigari. Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two characters and discuss their similarities and differences.

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