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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, The Pure and Resurrected, Pages 128 - 148.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 who Settler Williams is.
(c) She asks if Matigari knows Settler Wiliam's son.
(d) She asks what Matigari did with the body.

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

3. What does Matigari say is the combination needed to defeat the enemy?
(a) Truth and justice.
(b) Right and might.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) Faith and luck.

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?
(a) Abdullah.
(b) Giceru.
(c) Kiroro.
(d) Thiong'o.

5. Which prisoner tells Matigari he will "unravel" the "riddle," referring to the question Matigari asked the other prisoners?
(a) The murderer.
(b) The informer.
(c) The drunkard.
(d) The prisoner accused of theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is John Boy Junior hiding near the end of Part III?

2. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says he had gone to college?

3. What rumors about the Minister's wife does Matigari hear after he parks the Mercedes?

4. What do the prisoners ask Matigari when he tells them his full name?

5. Who wrote Matigari?

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