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(1) Wangari
loved eating the figs that grew on the tree in her family’s yard
always carefully cleaned up the twigs that fell from the family’s fig tree
ate figs from the family fig tree but only because her mother insisted
was not allowed to eat the figs from the family’s fig tree
(2) When Wangari returned to her home town all the trees around it had been cut down
by logging companies
by real estate developers
by tea planters
by ordinary people who needed firewood
(3) Wangari got part of her university education
in the US
in Canada
in Great Britain
in Nigeria
(4) Wangari’s husband was
a politician
a university professor
an environmentalist
a farmer
(5) AThe people Wangari worked with in her Green Belt Movement were mainly
students from the University of Nairobi
volunteer workers from Europe
unemployed men and women from large cities
illiterate women
(6) In Africa, wood is mainly used for
building
paper making
fuel
export
(7) Wangari got into trouble with the police when she tried to plant trees on land
that had been cleared for a football stadium
that had been cleared for a low cost housing project
that had been cleared for a luxury housing project
that had been cleared for a tea plantation
(8) After Wangari was elected to parliament she
decided she agreed with what the government was doing
continued to disagree with the government but remained silent
accepted the President’s gift of a large farm
continued to openly criticize the government