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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 is John's mother's name?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Susana.
(c) Annie.
(d) Mary.

2. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(b) John's father asks him if he did his homework.
(c) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(d) John's father asks him when his journey is.

3. What is John's father's name?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Sylvane.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Ned.

4. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Move.
(b) Sin.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Get a low-paying job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?

2. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

3. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

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

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

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