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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 worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?
(a) They will blame his parents.
(b) They will ban him from going to church.
(c) He will be banished.
(d) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.

2. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?
(a) With piety.
(b) Like nothing has changed.
(c) Like Europeans.
(d) With humility.

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

4. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?
(a) He feels he looks at him with pity.
(b) He feels he looks at him likehe is a child.
(c) He feels he looks at him like he is a sinner.
(d) He feels he looks at him with great respect.

5. 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's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(c) John will not look at him.
(d) John had told his father they needed to talk.

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

3. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

4. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?

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

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