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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Wiping your Tears Away, Pages 17 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Matigari tell Ngarũro wa Kirĩro to tell the factory workers?
(a) Not to give up the fight.
(b) They should avoid conflict at all costs.
(c) Matigari has returned.
(d) Settler Williams and John Boy are dead.

2. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?
(a) The factory to find work.
(b) His house.
(c) The wilderness to hide.
(d) The police station.

3. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?
(a) They cannot eat.
(b) The guards beat them.
(c) They sneak in anyway.
(d) The other children help them pay.

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. What happened after Gũthera refused to give the officer what he asked for when her father was arrested?
(a) Her father was killed and their land confiscated.
(b) A judge deemed her father innocent and he was set free.
(c) An anonymous person paid her father's bail.
(d) Her father broke out and she never saw him again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part I of Matigari?

2. What do the two guards require from the children before allowing them entry in Part I of Matigari?

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

4. What is the country's leader referred to over the radio in Part I?

5. What does Matigari make with a strip of bark from the mugomo tree?

(see the answer key)

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