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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. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?
(a) His one remaining enemy.
(b) His fellow soldiers.
(c) His family.
(d) Settler Williams.

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

3. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?
(a) For carrying bullets in his Bible.
(b) For beating his wife.
(c) For speaking out against the country's leader.
(d) For allowing his daughter to get an education.

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

5. What is the main topic of conversation at the bar when Matigari enters with Mũriũki?
(a) The factory strike.
(b) Women complaining about their husbands.
(c) How much better the country is these days.
(d) The mysterious Matigari.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the children accuse Matigari of doing as he follows them?

2. 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?

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

4. What does Gũthera ask Matigari after sitting on his lap at the bar?

5. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?

(see the answer key)

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