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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. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?
(a) He needs to join the worker's strike.
(b) He has has to pick up his children from school.
(c) He promised his wife he would meet her for dinner.
(d) He is too tired.

2. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?
(a) They felt she could get a job.
(b) They said she was a terrorist's child.
(c) They thought her family was cursed.
(d) They were all poor too.

3. What weapon does Matigari hold at the start of the story?
(a) A crossbow.
(b) A grenade.
(c) An AK-47.
(d) A pistol.

4. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?
(a) His family.
(b) His fellow soldiers.
(c) Settler Williams.
(d) His one remaining enemy.

5. Who did Gũthera consult with before telling the officer whether or not she would do what he suggested she do in order to save her father's life?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her priest.
(d) Her siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gũthera ask when Matigari tells her that Settler Williams is dead?

2. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?

3. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?

4. At the scrapyard in Part I, what does the boy tell Matigari happened to his father?

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

(see the answer key)

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