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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Seeker of Truth, Pages 84 - 108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two prisoners are the only not brought before the audience at the Minister of Truth's meeting?
(a) Matigari and the drunkard.
(b) The murderer and the thief.
(c) The student and the teacher.
(d) Matigari and the informer.

2. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?
(a) His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(b) John Boy and Settler Williams.
(c) Ngarũro wa Kirĩro's.
(d) Matigari's.

3. What does one of the prisoners tell Matigari and the others he saw as he walked away from the factory during the strike?
(a) Statues of Boy and Williams go up in flames.
(b) The factory explode.
(c) Workers running for their lives.
(d) Police officers beating Ngarũro wa Kirĩro.

4. What does the professor who sits near the Minister of Truth teach?
(a) The Economics of Poverty.
(b) The Philosophy of Reason.
(c) The History of Parrotology.
(d) The Art of Herding.

5. Why are the boys in the scrapyard disappointed that they attacked Matigari?
(a) They believe he is an angel.
(b) They learned he had saved Gũthera.
(c) They realize they should have taken his money first.
(d) They realize he was kind to Mũriũki.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?

2. What is the Member of Parliament's solution to the problem of poverty?

3. Whom does the teacher suggest Matigari find next?

4. What does the Voice of Truth say over the radio about women while Matigari is at the bar?

5. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?

(see the answer key)

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