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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?
(a) When his mother got a job.
(b) When he became a preacher.
(c) When John left for college.
(d) After John was born.

2. 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 no longer hold him in high esteem.
(c) They will ban him from going to church.
(d) He will be banished.

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

4. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Pitiful.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Majestic.
(d) Holy.

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 mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(b) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(c) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(d) John will not look at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

2. What is John's feeling toward his father?

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

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

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

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