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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 55 - 58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) Women will never understand.
(b) I am too easy on him.
(c) She has a point.
(d) She is just as hard on him.

2. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(b) How to be a good man.
(c) How Jesus had died for them.
(d) The importance of a good education.

3. How does John's mother always refer to him?
(a) Little one.
(b) Little John.
(c) John John.
(d) The boy.

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

5. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?
(a) Admonish.
(b) Persecute.
(c) Antagonize.
(d) Threaten.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the main character's name?

4. What is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?

5. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

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