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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 58 - 62 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Quit school.
(c) Get a low-paying job.
(d) Sin.

2. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) They have good jobs.
(b) They have completed school.
(c) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.
(d) They have more money than he does.

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

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

5. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?
(a) Bibles.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Adopted children.
(d) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?

3. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?

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

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

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