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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. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?
2. What does one of the prisoners tell Matigari and the others he saw as he walked away from the factory during the strike?
3. What do the prisoners ask Matigari when he tells them his full name?
4. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?
5. What does Matigari tell the man outside the house at the plantation that Matigari wants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Matigari witness children do after running after a tractor?
2. Why were the other prisoners Matigari shares a cell with arrested?
3. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki he was doing in the woods and why?
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. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says his father sent him to school?
6. What does Matigari tell Mũriũki happened the day he told Settler Williams he could not longer reap the rewards of Matigari's labor?
7. What does Mũriũki tell Matigari happened to his mother as they sit at the Mataha hotel?
8. What does the murderer warn the prisoners, resulting in a fight between him and another prisoner?
9. What happens to Matigari when he does not heed the boy's warning not to enter the scrapyard?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose two characters and discuss their similarities and differences.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Ngũgĩ's language style and word choice in Matigari. What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers
Essay Topic 3
Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?
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