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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the workers' houses described as Matigari, Gũthera and Mũriũki pass them in the Mercedes?
(a) Simple, yet elegant.
(b) Modest and clean.
(c) Dilapidated and rat infested.
(d) Tiny and crammed together.

2. Who does the Minister of Truth say killed John Boy Junior's father?
(a) The police.
(b) Terrorists.
(c) Matigari.
(d) The factory workers.

3. Who is Matigari sitting with under a tree after his escape from the mental hospital?
(a) The student and the teacher.
(b) His wife and children.
(c) Gũthera and Mũriũki.
(d) John Boy Junior and Robert Williams.

4. What did the student who was formerly imprisoned join when he returned to the university?
(a) A gang.
(b) A student protest.
(c) A prayer meeting.
(d) A party.

5. Who is the first prisoner Matigari finds after leaving the old woman in the wilderness?
(a) The drunkard.
(b) The informer.
(c) The student.
(d) The murderer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Minister of Truth describe his home?

2. Whom does the teacher suggest Matigari find next?

3. Who does Ngarũro wa Kirĩro say should be removed from the board of the factory?

4. Why does the Minister say the factory will take back all workers except Ngarũro wa Kirĩro?

5. What emblem is on the Minister of Truth's tie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Matigari do with his belt of peace while in the mental hospital at the start of Part III? Why?

2. What does the Minister of Truth tell his audience he and John Boy Junior have in common? What does he say happened to John Boy Junior's father?

3. Who does the priest tell Matigari he must go to if he wishes to find truth and justice?

4. What is Matigari told when he asks them at the law courts where he can find truth and justice?

5. What do the boys in the scrapyard want Mũriũki to tell them at the start of Part II?

6. Describe the inside of the Mercedes Matigari drives out of the wilderness. What does Gũthera say about it?

7. What is the difference between the workers' homes and the homes of the wealthy that Matigari, Gũthera and Mũriũki pass as they drive in the Mercedes they got in the wilderness?

8. Who does the Minister of Truth tell the audience "the country's... welfare and stability are dependent on" (97) after Matigari is arrested?

9. What is the verdict for both Matigari and Ngarũro wa Kirĩro? Where are they taken?

10. What does Matigari say at the Minister of Truth's meeting after Ngarũro wa Kirĩro is taken away?

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