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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 is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?
(a) Drinking a beer.
(b) Napping.
(c) Roasting potatoes.
(d) Yelling at workers.

2. What does Gũthera ask when Matigari tells her that Settler Williams is dead?
(a) She asks if Matigari knows Settler Wiliam's son.
(b) She asks who Settler Williams is.
(c) She asks what Matigari did with the body.
(d) She asks why he would kill such a great man.

3. 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.

4. What was Gũthera's 11th commandment?
(a) She would never sleep with an officer.
(b) She would never let her siblings go hungry.
(c) She would never confess to a priest.
(d) She would never return to church.

5. What did Gũthera do to support her siblings after her father's death?
(a) She sold handmade items.
(b) She opened her own cafe.
(c) She became a prostitute.
(d) She stole food.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

4. Why does Mũriũki worry the other children might beat him when he returns to the scrapyard?

5. What does Matigari tell Ngarũro wa Kirĩro to tell the factory workers?

(see the answer key)

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