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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, The Pure and Resurrected, Pages 109 - 127.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Provincial Commissioner say he has banned?
(a) The song about Matigari.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Factory strikes.
(d) Prostitution.

2. The editor from which local newspaper sits near the Minister of Truth during his meeting in Part II?
(a) The Weekly Whiner.
(b) The Daily Parrot.
(c) The Voice of Truth.
(d) The Local Ledger.

3. Where do the children run to in Part I of Matigari?
(a) The factory.
(b) A garbage yard.
(c) A cafe.
(d) School.

4. Who does the priest warn the audience to beware of at the Minister of Truth's meeting?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Drunkards.
(c) Marxist teachers.
(d) False prophets.

5. What does Matigari overhear people saying about the returned patriots?
(a) They held flaming swords.
(b) They overthrew His Excellency.
(c) They spent years wasting their time fighting.
(d) They are going to save them from slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Member of Parliament say is the root cause of poverty in their country?

2. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?

3. What does the old woman in the wilderness tell Matigari are "the new stars" (73)?

4. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?

5. What does Matigari see at the start of Part I that makes him think things have changed a great deal in his country since he left?

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