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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 the children fighting over when Matigari chases them away with a stick?
2. What is the first place Matigari decides he should search for his family in Part I?
3. What is the name of the voice Matigari hears over the radio in Part I?
4. What weapon does Matigari hold at the start of the story?
5. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Describe the cell Matigari is put in after being arrested at John Boy Junior's house.
3. Why were the other prisoners Matigari shares a cell with arrested?
4. What does the murderer warn the prisoners, resulting in a fight between him and another prisoner?
5. Describe the conversation between Matigari and Gũthera after she offers him "a little pleasure" (24).
6. What happens to Gũthera after she leaves the bar? How does Matigari save her?
7. What happens to Matigari when he does not heed the boy's warning not to enter the scrapyard?
8. What does Matigari think as he watches two officers, the guard and the tractor driver divvying up the money from the children?
9. What does Matigari think of as he watches a riderless horse pass him at the start of the novel?
10. What does one of the prisoners describe seeing and hearing at the factory strike that he walked away from earlier that day?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay examining the ending of Matigari. How did the ending fit into the storyline? Do you think the ending was effective? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?
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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