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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 does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?
(a) He will rot in prison.
(b) He will escape and return to the wilderness.
(c) He will get a good lawyer.
(d) He will go home the next day.

2. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?
(a) His one remaining enemy.
(b) His fellow soldiers.
(c) His family.
(d) Settler Williams.

3. How does the white man on horseback outside the house know Settler Williams?
(a) He is Settler William's brother-in-law.
(b) Settler Williams is his father.
(c) He grew up with Settler Williams.
(d) He worked for Settler Williams.

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

5. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?
(a) Roasting potatoes.
(b) Drinking a beer.
(c) Yelling at workers.
(d) Napping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?

2. What are the children fighting over when Matigari chases them away with a stick?

3. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

4. What new name does the Provincial Commissioner give to Trampville?

5. Why does Mũriũki worry the other children might beat him when he returns to the scrapyard?

(see the answer key)

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