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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, The Pure and Resurrected, Pages 109 - 127.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Matigari overhear people saying about the returned patriots?
(a) They are going to save them from slavery.
(b) They held flaming swords.
(c) They overthrew His Excellency.
(d) They spent years wasting their time fighting.

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. What did Gũthera do to support her siblings after her father's death?
(a) She became a prostitute.
(b) She opened her own cafe.
(c) She stole food.
(d) She sold handmade items.

5. Where does Gũthera suggest Matigari go to search for his family?
(a) The police.
(b) The plantations.
(c) The scrapyard.
(d) His Excellency Ole Excellence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?

2. Where do Matigari, Gũthera and Mũriũki decide they will spend the night after Matigari escapes from the hospital?

3. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?

4. Where is Matigari when he is told he may has well hang himself if he keeps going around asking about truth and justice?

5. Who does the chief of police say do not go mad?

(see the answer key)

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