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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 63 - 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) Education.
(b) Many moved away.
(c) Internal conflict between families.
(d) The white man's religion.

2. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.
(b) He asks if he can make them the tea.
(c) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(d) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.

3. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Danger.
(b) Evil influences.
(c) Disease.
(d) Not getting a good education.

4. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) I hate you! You trapped me alive!
(b) Damn this place!
(c) I love you forever!
(d) I cannot leave you, my home!

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John go the evening after he and his father had gone shopping?

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

3. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?

4. How much time does Wamuhu agreed to wait before telling her parents she is pregnant?

5. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?

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