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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Matigari asks people at a restaurant where he can find truth and justice, what do they tell him?
(a) To shut up.
(b) To search for the prophet Matigari.
(c) To ask His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(d) To ask the Voice of Truth.

2. From what song does the chairman of the local branch sing after his speech at the Minister of Truth's meeting?
(a) The Song of Matigari.
(b) The Song of Truth and Justice.
(c) The Song of the Parrot.
(d) The Song of Peace.

3. Which two prisoners are the only not brought before the audience at the Minister of Truth's meeting?
(a) The student and the teacher.
(b) The murderer and the thief.
(c) Matigari and the drunkard.
(d) Matigari and the informer.

4. How does the Minister of Truth describe his home?
(a) A tiny cottage with just enough room for his family.
(b) A modest home with a large dining area situated on a large piece of land.
(c) A large marble home with multiple pools and saunas.
(d) A huge mansion with a roof of gold and golden gates.

5. What does the Voice say anyone who is not mad would do?
(a) Shave their beards and keep their hair short.
(b) Wear the KKK emblem on their shirt.
(c) Stay indoors until the madmen have been detained.
(d) Wear all black.

6. What does Gũthera think will happen to the woman in the Mercedes when she goes home to her husband?
(a) He will divorce her.
(b) He will beat her.
(c) He will kill her.
(d) He will never find out what she was doing.

7. Why is Matigari said to be "particularly dangerous" (115) when his escape is announced?
(a) He is a giant of great strength.
(b) He has an AK-47 and a sword.
(c) Due to his delusions.
(d) He does not care if he loses his life.

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

9. What does the Voice of Truth announce at 10 a.m. at the start of Part III?
(a) Matigari has been hanged.
(b) The Minister of Truth is missing.
(c) His Excellency Ole Excellence has died.
(d) Patients have escaped from the mental hospital.

10. The Voice of Truth announces that the Minister has ordered police to do what to any madman they find?
(a) Shoot them.
(b) Hang them.
(c) Set dogs on them.
(d) Arrest them.

11. What does the judge say will happen to Matigari and Ngarũro wa Kirĩro after their arrest?
(a) They will be let out on bail.
(b) They will be taken to a mental hospital.
(c) They are sentenced to life in prison.
(d) They will be hanged.

12. What type of car does Mũriũki sleep in in the scrapyard?
(a) BMW.
(b) Land Rover.
(c) Mercedes.
(d) Ford.

13. Why are the boys in the scrapyard disappointed that they attacked Matigari?
(a) They believe he is an angel.
(b) They learned he had saved Gũthera.
(c) They realize they should have taken his money first.
(d) They realize he was kind to Mũriũki.

14. What does the student announce to the audience at the Minister of Truth's meeting which causes an uproar?
(a) The Hooded man is really Matigari.
(b) Matigari has escaped.
(c) 50 university students were killed.
(d) His Excellency Ole Excellence is a fraud.

15. Where do Matigari, Gũthera and Mũriũki decide they will spend the night after Matigari escapes from the hospital?
(a) The factory.
(b) The Mataha hotel.
(c) John Boy Junior's house.
(d) The children's village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mũriũki say the people who drove through the wilderness are doing?

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

3. Who does the Voice of Truth announce they are searching for after allegedly bringing food to the patients in the mental hospital?

4. What does Matigari overhear people saying about the returned patriots?

5. Who does the Minister of Truth say killed John Boy Junior's father?

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