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

2. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?
(a) He is polite.
(b) He is moody.
(c) He is shy.
(d) He is gregarious.

3. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People from different tribes to marry.
(b) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.
(c) People to marry if they are not in love.
(d) Men to marry circumcised women.

4. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.
(b) She had suspected John liked Wamuhu and that he has a good reputation.
(c) She worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.
(d) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.

5. 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 be a good man.
(b) The importance of a good education.
(c) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(d) How Jesus had died for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

2. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

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

4. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?

5. What does John worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?

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