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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 the Voice of Truth say over the radio about women while Matigari is at the bar?
(a) Women should be seen and not heard.
(b) Women should rule the country.
(c) Women should take refuge in the church.
(d) Women should join the army.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What does one of the children accuse Matigari of doing as he follows them?
(a) Trying to find a place to sleep.
(b) Trying to steal one of the children.
(c) Working for the police.
(d) Trying to steal their gains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gũthera tell Matigari happened to her mother?

3. What does Matigari tell Gũthera when she offers him "a little pleasure" (24)?

4. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

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

(see the answer key)

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