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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Wiping your Tears Away, Pages 33 - 54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two guards, policemen, and tractor driver doing when Matigari passes them as he follows the children?
(a) Divying up the money the children gave them.
(b) Arresting children at random.
(c) Drinking beer and laughing.
(d) Digging through the pile of trash.

2. What is Matigari surprised at when he is at the bar at the Mataha hotel?
(a) The prices are super high.
(b) Nobody else is there.
(c) His family is there.
(d) Women work there.

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 was Gũthera's 11th commandment?
(a) She would never let her siblings go hungry.
(b) She would never confess to a priest.
(c) She would never sleep with an officer.
(d) She would never return to church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After learning of the worker's strike, what does Matigari ask the prisoners?

2. What does Gũthera ask when Matigari tells her that Settler Williams is dead?

3. Who does Matigari say took the gun from him when he pointed it at Settler Williams?

4. What is unusual about the day each of the men, including Matigari, was arrested?

5. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?

(see the answer key)

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