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

2. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) His best friend.
(b) The old woman.
(c) His old teacher.
(d) Wamuhu.

3. What does John do before leaving his hut in hopes his father will not know he left?
(a) He lights his lantern.
(b) He tells his parents he is going to bed.
(c) He locks the door so nobody can come in.
(d) He tells his father not to go to his hut because he will be studying.

4. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?
(a) His mother had told everyone.
(b) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.
(c) It was in the Swahili newspaper.
(d) HIs father told everyone at church.

5. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?
(a) Bibles.
(b) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(c) Adopted children.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?

2. What is John's father's name?

3. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?

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

5. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?

(see the answer key)

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