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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 carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) His change purse.
(b) A Bible.
(c) School books.
(d) His shoes.

2. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Mushroom towns.
(b) Lonely towns.
(c) Shanty towns.
(d) Sprawling towns.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?

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

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

5. During what war is John's village said to have grown?

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