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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 Matigari see at the start of Part I that makes him think things have changed a great deal in his country since he left?
(a) American fast food restaurants.
(b) White people chauffeuring Black Africans.
(c) Black Africans driving cars.
(d) Female soldiers riding horseback.

2. 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) Drinking beer and laughing.
(c) Arresting children at random.
(d) Digging through the pile of trash.

3. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?
(a) Private Jefferson.
(b) Captain Johnson.
(c) Settler Wiliams.
(d) Colonel Warren.

4. What does Matigari say at the end of Part I when a prisoner asks about his plans?
(a) He will escape and return to the wilderness.
(b) He will go home the next day.
(c) He will get a good lawyer.
(d) He will rot in prison.

5. What happened after Gũthera refused to give the officer what he asked for when her father was arrested?
(a) An anonymous person paid her father's bail.
(b) Her father broke out and she never saw him again.
(c) A judge deemed her father innocent and he was set free.
(d) Her father was killed and their land confiscated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ngarũro wa Kirĩro?

2. Who does Matigari want to find before he goes home at the start of Matigari?

3. What do the two guards require from the children before allowing them entry in Part I of Matigari?

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

5. Why does the Black man on horseback outside the house whip Matigari when he mentions John Boy?

(see the answer key)

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