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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John offer Wamuhu money to do?
(a) Say that someone else got her pregnant.
(b) See a doctor to make sure she is pregnant.
(c) Take care of their baby while he is away.
(d) Have an abortion.

2. What does John see in the nightmare he has after he first spoke to Wamuhu?
(a) Babies and dolls.
(b) His father and God.
(c) Circumcision and ghosts.
(d) His mother and his school.

3. Who does John think might be the most beautiful girl in Limuru?
(a) Susana.
(b) His best friend's sister.
(c) Wamuhu.
(d) Wamuhu's sister.

4. Who is the author of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Thiong'o Achibe.
(b) Ngũgĩ Thomas.
(c) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(d) John Thiong'o.

5. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?
(a) Wamuhu.
(b) The old woman.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's mother's name?

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

3. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

4. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

5. What does John say to Wamuhu though he does not truly believe it?

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