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

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

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

4. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(b) John will not look at him.
(c) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(d) John had told his father they needed to talk.

5. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Excessive leniency.
(b) Unconditional love.
(c) Tough love.
(d) Moral torture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main character's name?

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

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

5. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?

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