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

2. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?
(a) He fears his father knows his secret.
(b) He fears his father is going to tell him he cannot go away to school.
(c) He fears his father is going to tell him he is moving out.
(d) He fears his father lost his job.

3. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
(a) The evening is unusually cold.
(b) Women have returned from the shambas.
(c) People have lit a fire for light.
(d) People are having Bible study.

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

5. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) She is just as hard on him.
(b) I am too easy on him.
(c) She has a point.
(d) Women will never understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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

3. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

4. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to hear of before dismissing John from their conversation at the start of the story?

5. What is John's father's occupation?

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