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

2. Where does the woman in the wilderness tell Matigari he can find truth and justice?
(a) At the Ministry of Truth and Justice.
(b) In the woods.
(c) In people's actions.
(d) In his own heart.

3. What does the teacher tell Matigari when he finds him in his home after speaking with the student?
(a) He is dying.
(b) He has been waiting for him.
(c) He is being hunted.
(d) He wants to start a revolution.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Provincial Commissioner say he has banned?

2. What does the old woman in the wilderness tell Matigari "breeds misery" (73)?

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

4. What does the student announce to the audience at the Minister of Truth's meeting which causes an uproar?

5. Whose story does Matigari share with the priest when he first finds him praying?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What method does The Voice of Truth say they suspect the patients at the mental hospital used to escape at the start of Part III?

8. How did Gũthera save Matigari while in prison?

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

10. What does the Minister of Truth tell the audience the factory is doing and what does this mean regarding the rest of the country?

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