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

2. What is the mugumo?
(a) An olive tree.
(b) A fig tree.
(c) A banana tree.
(d) A pineapple tree.

3. What is the country's leader referred to over the radio in Part I?
(a) The Embodiment of Truth and Compassion.
(b) His Excellency Ole Excellency.
(c) The Honorable Ole Master.
(d) Ole Master of Wonder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the white man on horseback outside the house know Settler Williams?

2. What happened after Gũthera refused to give the officer what he asked for when her father was arrested?

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

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

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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