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

2. In what way does John feel marrying Wamuhu would impact his future?
(a) He would not be able to attend university.
(b) He would have to become a preacher.
(c) He would be banished from the church.
(d) His father would disown him.

3. 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) Alcohol.
(b) Bibles.
(c) Adopted children.
(d) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.

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

5. What is the first thing John asks Wamuhu while they are walking?
(a) If she will marry him.
(b) If her parents know.
(c) If she wants to go out for dinner.
(d) If she will miss him when he goes to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

2. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?

3. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?

4. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?

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

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