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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 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.

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

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) Men to marry circumcised women.
(d) People to marry if they are not in love.

4. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Auntie.
(d) Sister.

5. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) The old woman.
(d) Wamuhu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

2. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?

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

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

5. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?

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