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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 do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?
(a) He walked very far to get there.
(b) He has been seeing their daughter.
(c) He is the educated one from the village.
(d) He is Susana's son.

2. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) Schol.
(c) Church.
(d) The shops.

3. What is the main character's name?
(a) Joseph.
(b) John.
(c) Paul.
(d) Steven.

4. Why is John sure his father and the church would never let him marry Wamuhu?
(a) Because her family is poor.
(b) Because she is not a virgin.
(c) Because she is circumcised.
(d) Because she is not Christian.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?

2. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?

3. What does John fear the government might do if he has a child with Wamuhu?

4. What is John's father's name?

5. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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