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

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

3. 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 join the army.
(c) Women should rule the country.
(d) Women should take refuge in the church.

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) Divying up the money the children gave them.
(c) Drinking beer and laughing.
(d) Digging through the pile of trash.

5. What does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?
(a) The comrades who fought for freedom.
(b) The loyalists who served the king.
(c) The patriots who survived the bullets.
(d) The expatriates who ditched the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gũthera do to support her siblings after her father's death?

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

3. Where do the children run to in Part I of Matigari?

4. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?

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

(see the answer key)

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