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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 is John's father's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Preacher.

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

3. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.
(b) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.
(c) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.
(d) She had suspected John liked Wamuhu and that he has a good reputation.

4. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?
(a) He does not think an educated man like John would be interested in their daughter.
(b) He reminds his wife that their daughter has been circumcised.
(c) There is not way he would let Wamuhu marry such a scoundrel.
(d) He would be proud to call John his son.

5. What does Wamuhu tell John her mother recently asked her which makes her think she knows she is pregnant?
(a) She looked like a woman with child.
(b) She ate like a woman with child.
(c) She breathed like a woman with child.
(d) She walked like a woman with child.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?

2. What does John consider doing when he gets home and sees his parent's hut is lit?

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

4. How far along does Wamuhu tell John she is after he asks her on their walk?

5. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

(see the answer key)

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