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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Seeker of Truth, Pages 84 - 108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the country's leader referred to over the radio in Part I?
(a) Ole Master of Wonder.
(b) His Excellency Ole Excellency.
(c) The Embodiment of Truth and Compassion.
(d) The Honorable Ole Master.

2. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?
(a) What happened to law and order in their land.
(b) Where truth and justice has gone in this country.
(c) How Boy and Williams because so powerful.
(d) Why factory workers are so ungrateful.

3. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?
(a) The loyalists who served the king.
(b) The comrades who fought for freedom.
(c) The expatriates who ditched the country.
(d) The patriots who survived the bullets.

4. What has the priest heard, which inspires him to pray more?
(a) The patriots have returned.
(b) The world is ending.
(c) He is being hunted.
(d) Jesus has returned.

5. What is the name of the informer who is in the cell with Matigari the first time he is arrested, but not the second?
(a) Abdullah.
(b) Kiroro.
(c) Thiong'o.
(d) Giceru.

Short Answer Questions

1. After escaping prison, what does Matigari hear most people discussing as he walks asking where he can find truth and justice?

2. Why does the Black man on horseback outside the house whip Matigari when he mentions John Boy?

3. What is the mugumo?

4. What does Matigari say after telling John Boy Junior he will be back the next day to take back his home?

5. Why do many attend the Minister of Truth's meeting in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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