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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Seeker of Truth, Pages 55 - 83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?
(a) Selling milk and stealing food from a restaurant.
(b) Beating his wife and public drunkenness.
(c) Stealing a Mercedes and speaking against His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) Taking a day off of work and stealing a woman's purse.

2. What does Gũthera ask when Matigari tells her that Settler Williams is dead?
(a) She asks why he would kill such a great man.
(b) She asks if Matigari knows Settler Wiliam's son.
(c) She asks who Settler Williams is.
(d) She asks what Matigari did with the body.

3. Whose story does Matigari share with the priest when he first finds him praying?
(a) Gũthera's.
(b) John Boy's.
(c) Mũriũki's.
(d) Settler Wiliams.

4. When Matigari asks people at a restaurant where he can find truth and justice, what do they tell him?
(a) To shut up.
(b) To search for the prophet Matigari.
(c) To ask His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) To ask the Voice of Truth.

5. Who wrote Matigari?
(a) Chinua Achebe.
(b) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(c) Matigari ma Njirũũngi.
(d) Nuruddin Farah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gũthera do to help Matigari escape?

2. What weapon does Matigari hold at the start of the story?

3. Who is the first prisoner Matigari finds after leaving the old woman in the wilderness?

4. What did the student who was formerly imprisoned join when he returned to the university?

5. What is the name of the voice Matigari hears over the radio in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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