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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Wiping your Tears Away, Pages 1 - 16 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom do the children fight for the contents of the tractor in Part I of Matigari?
(a) Factory workers.
(b) Stray dogs and vultures.
(c) Elderly homeless people.
(d) Soldiers.

2. What do the two guards require from the children before allowing them entry in Part I of Matigari?
(a) A hug.
(b) Food.
(c) Beer.
(d) Money.

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

4. What are the two guards, policemen, and tractor driver doing when Matigari passes them as he follows the children?
(a) Arresting children at random.
(b) Digging through the pile of trash.
(c) Divying up the money the children gave them.
(d) Drinking beer and laughing.

5. Who wrote Matigari?
(a) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) Matigari ma Njirũũngi.
(d) Nuruddin Farah.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the boy do when Matigari is pelted with stones outside the factory?

3. Who is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro?

4. What does Matigari see at the start of Part I that makes him think things have changed a great deal in his country since he left?

5. What does one of the children accuse Matigari of doing as he follows them?

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