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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. Where do the children run to in Part I of Matigari?
(a) A garbage yard.
(b) The factory.
(c) A cafe.
(d) School.

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

3. Who does Matigari say took the gun from him when he pointed it at Settler Williams?
(a) Ngarũro wa Kirĩro.
(b) Settler William's son.
(c) John Boy.
(d) Jim Benson.

4. Why does Gũthera decide to help Matigari despite thinking he might be insane?
(a) She thinks he will pay her well.
(b) He saved her life.
(c) He reminds her of his father.
(d) It is her duty as a Christian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro?

2. What does the boy do when Matigari is pelted with stones outside the factory?

3. Who wrote 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. Why was Gũthera's father arrested after the war began?

(see the answer key)

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