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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 do at the mugomo tree?
(a) He eats and rests.
(b) He waits for the enemy.
(c) He unearths a treasure.
(d) He buries his weapons.

2. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?
(a) The guards beat them.
(b) They sneak in anyway.
(c) The other children help them pay.
(d) They cannot eat.

3. 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) Female soldiers riding horseback.
(b) Black Africans driving cars.
(c) White people chauffeuring Black Africans.
(d) American fast food restaurants.

4. What does Gũthera tell Matigari happened to her mother?
(a) She died in childbirth.
(b) She died in battle.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) She left them when she was young.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gũthera ask Matigari after sitting on his lap at the bar?

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

4. Why did the people at Gũthera's church refuse to help her when she needed money to care for her siblings?

5. How does Matigari know when the factory workers have breaks?

(see the answer key)

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