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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 is Gũthera surprised to learn Matigari does not know as they walk to a plantation?
(a) He does not know how to get to the nearest plantation.
(b) He does not know officers have been fighting workers and students for years.
(c) He does not know that most of the factories have shut down.
(d) He does not know about His Excellency Ole Excellence.

2. Why is Matigari excited when John Boy Junior says he had gone to college?
(a) He is impressed to meet an educated Black man.
(b) He feels his education is a sign of progress in their country.
(c) Matigari went to the same college.
(d) Matigari is one of the group who helped pay for his college.

3. Who wrote Matigari?
(a) Matigari ma Njirũũngi.
(b) Nuruddin Farah.
(c) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

4. Where does Matigari tell Mũriũki he will take him when Mũriũki expresses fear of returning to the scrapyard?
(a) The police station.
(b) His house.
(c) The factory to find work.
(d) The wilderness to hide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who slept in the house Matigari built while Matigari slept on the verandah?

2. What is the mugumo?

3. What does the boy tell Matigari happens to them if they do not pay the guards at the garbage yard?

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

5. Why does Gũthera decide to help Matigari despite thinking he might be insane?

(see the answer key)

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