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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 are children chasing after near the factory in Part I when Matigari first arrives?
(a) A tractor.
(b) A ball.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) A pack of stray dogs.

2. 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 cannot eat.
(c) They sneak in anyway.
(d) The guards beat them.

3. What are the children fighting over when Matigari chases them away with a stick?
(a) A pile of old newspapers.
(b) A bunch of shirts.
(c) A case of bananas.
(d) A bundle of shoelaces.

4. What does the boy do when Matigari is pelted with stones outside the factory?
(a) He finds a worker to help him.
(b) He runs away and hides in the scrapyard.
(c) He joins the children in throwing stones at him.
(d) He laughs.

5. Why is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro unable to stay with Matigari and Mũriũki at the restaurant at the Mataha Hotel?
(a) He is too tired.
(b) He needs to join the worker's strike.
(c) He promised his wife he would meet her for dinner.
(d) He has has to pick up his children from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matigari do at the mugomo tree?

2. What is Matigari surprised at when he is at the bar at the Mataha hotel?

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

4. What happened after Gũthera refused to give the officer what he asked for when her father was arrested?

5. Who does Gũthera say she is hiding from when she enters the bar in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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