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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Wiping your Tears Away, Pages 1 - 16 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mũriũki worry the other children might beat him when he returns to the scrapyard?
(a) For showing Matigari where they live.
(b) For being an informer.
(c) For not bringing any food.
(d) For not paying the guards.

3. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?
(a) The other children help them pay.
(b) They sneak in anyway.
(c) The guards beat them.
(d) They cannot eat.

4. What does Matigari make with a strip of bark from the mugomo tree?
(a) A small fire.
(b) A sword.
(c) A hat.
(d) A belt of peace.

5. How does Matigari know when the factory workers have breaks?
(a) The children run to the factory during each break.
(b) Matigari has a watch and knows what time breaks occur.
(c) A siren blares.
(d) He can hear the workers shouting outside.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Part I of Matigari?

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

4. 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?

5. Who wrote Matigari?

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