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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. Whom does the teacher suggest Matigari find next?
(a) Ngarũro.
(b) The thief.
(c) Gũthera.
(d) The priest.

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

3. Whose story does Matigari share with the priest when he first finds him praying?
(a) Mũriũki's.
(b) Gũthera's.
(c) John Boy's.
(d) Settler Wiliams.

4. How does Matigari bribe the couple in the wilderness to use their car?
(a) He takes their clothes.
(b) He gives them money.
(c) He threatens them with his gun.
(d) He tells them he will drive them home first.

5. What does Guthera believe will happen when the man in the Mercedes gets home to his wife?
(a) He will lose his job.
(b) She will never know what he was doing.
(c) She will kick him out of the house.
(d) He will beat her for wondering what he was doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two prisoners are the only not brought before the audience at the Minister of Truth's meeting?

2. What does the Minister of Truth call himself?

3. What is the village where a song about Matigari is written?

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

5. What does the professor who sits near the Minister of Truth teach?

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. Who is the Hooded Truth and Justice and what is his role in serving justice?

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

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

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

6. What does the Member of Parliament say is the root cause of poverty and how does he plan to solve this problem?

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

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

9. What does Ngarũro wa Kirĩro say after the Minister of Truth says he will be the only factory worker not allowed to return to work?

10. Who does Gũthera realize the woman in the Mercedes is? Why is this ironic?

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