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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 does the name Matigari ma Njirũũngi mean?
(a) The loyalists who served the king.
(b) The expatriates who ditched the country.
(c) The patriots who survived the bullets.
(d) The comrades who fought for freedom.

2. 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.

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

4. Why does the Black man on horseback outside the house whip Matigari when he mentions John Boy?
(a) He did not want Matigari to speak at all.
(b) He hates John Boy.
(c) John Boy is his father.
(d) It is illegal to talk about John Boy.

5. What are some of the reasons the men who share Matigari's cell were arrested?
(a) Stealing a Mercedes and speaking against His Excellency Ole Excellence.
(b) Taking a day off of work and stealing a woman's purse.
(c) Beating his wife and public drunkenness.
(d) Selling milk and stealing food from a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which prisoner suggests there may be an informer among them?

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

3. What is a guard doing outside of the Anglo-American Leather and Plastic Works when Matigari arrives in Part I?

4. Whose children does Matigari learn from Ngarũro wa Kirĩro are factory director's?

5. From whom did John Boy Junior purchase the house and land that Matigari claims is his?

(see the answer key)

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