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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 word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?
(a) Mother.
(b) Ma'am.
(c) Auntie.
(d) Sister.

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
(a) Kuni.
(b) Cassava.
(c) Laundry.
(d) Water.

3. What is John's feeling toward his father?
(a) Anger.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Fear.
(d) Warmth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?

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

3. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?

4. What words of Reverend Carstone does John recall as he walks to Wamuhu's?

5. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

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