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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) Modest and clean.
(b) Simple, yet elegant.
(c) Dilapidated and rat infested.
(d) Tiny and crammed together.

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

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

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 raise wages of all workers.
(d) He will open a birth control clinic.

5. What does Matigari ask when the Minister asks if anyone else has questions after barricading the room so nobody can leave?
(a) What the point of his efforts all these years have been.
(b) Where a man can find truth and justice.
(c) Why children are fighting over garbage in this country.
(d) If he can join the factory board.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the student who was formerly imprisoned join when he returned to the university?

2. Who does the priest warn the audience to beware of at the Minister of Truth's meeting?

3. What does Matigari, Gũthera, and Mũriũki see driving through the wilderness?

4. What is the woman in the wilderness gathering outside of her house when Matigari approaches her?

5. What does Gũthera think people may be driving through the wilderness for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some rumors Matigari hears about himself as he walks around in search of truth and justice at the start of Part II?

3. What is different about the student when Matigari finds him in Part II after speaking to the old woman in the wilderness? Why?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What does the Provincial Commissioner announce a ban on during the Minister's meeting? What does he change the name Trampville to and why?

8. What does the priest tell Matigari that Gũthera should do after he explains to the priest that she broke her 11th commandment?

9. What does Gũthera say she has felt since Matigari saved her life? How does she speak about the female experience after she helped Matigari escape from the mental hospital?

10. What types of things does the Voice of Truth say their government will purchase with loans from the British, European, and U.S. governments?

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