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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 63 - 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Makerere.
(c) Makeno.
(d) Kikuma.

2. What did some believe that some of the images in John's dreams might portend?
(a) Good health.
(b) Family.
(c) Death.
(d) Riches.

3. What does John fear the government might do if he has a child with Wamuhu?
(a) Withdraw his scholarship.
(b) Banish him from the village.
(c) Bar him from returning to school.
(d) Have him imprisoned.

4. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John will not look at him.
(b) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(c) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(d) John had told his father they needed to talk.

5. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People from different tribes to marry.
(b) Men to marry circumcised women.
(c) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.
(d) People to marry if they are not in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's feeling toward his father?

2. How is Stanley's attitude toward "all the people in the village" (67) described?

3. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

4. Who is the author of "Meeting in the Dark"?

5. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?

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