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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. With whom do the children fight for the contents of the tractor in Part I of Matigari?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Factory workers.
(c) Stray dogs and vultures.
(d) Elderly homeless people.

2. Whom does the teacher suggest Matigari find next?
(a) The priest.
(b) Gũthera.
(c) The thief.
(d) Ngarũro.

3. Who are people beginning to say helped the prisoners escape?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Mũriũki.
(c) The Angel Gabriel.
(d) Gũthera.

4. What is the Member of Parliament's solution to the problem of poverty?
(a) He will start a community garden in every village.
(b) He will give every family 1,000 shillings.
(c) He will open a birth control clinic.
(d) He will raise wages of all workers.

5. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?
(a) He is too tired.
(b) He promised his wife he would meet her for dinner.
(c) He has has to pick up his children from school.
(d) He needs to join the worker's strike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the woman in the wilderness tell Matigari he can find truth and justice?

2. What does John Boy Junior say Matigari must show him in order to prove the house is his?

3. What does Mũriũki tell Matigari is happening outside of the bar after he goes out to see why they heard screaming?

4. What is the name of the informer who is in the cell with Matigari the first time he is arrested, but not the second?

5. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?

(see the answer key)

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