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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 the country's leader referred to over the radio in Part I?
(a) The Embodiment of Truth and Compassion.
(b) His Excellency Ole Excellency.
(c) Ole Master of Wonder.
(d) The Honorable Ole Master.

2. 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 their gains.
(c) Working for the police.
(d) Trying to steal one of the children.

3. 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?
(a) American fast food restaurants.
(b) White people chauffeuring Black Africans.
(c) Female soldiers riding horseback.
(d) Black Africans driving cars.

4. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?
(a) Colonel Warren.
(b) Private Jefferson.
(c) Settler Wiliams.
(d) Captain Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the voice Matigari hears over the radio in Part I?

2. What is the main topic of conversation at the bar when Matigari enters with Mũriũki?

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

4. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?

5. What are the children fighting over when Matigari chases them away with a stick?

(see the answer key)

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