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

2. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?
(a) Sister.
(b) Mother.
(c) Ma'am.
(d) Auntie.

3. 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 cannot leave you, my home!
(d) I love you forever!

4. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?
(a) Makerere.
(b) Limuru.
(c) Kikuma.
(d) Makeno.

5. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) She has a point.
(b) She is just as hard on him.
(c) Women will never understand.
(d) I am too easy on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does John see when he looks at Wamuhu as they are walking in the evening?

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

3. What did John's father feel about those he knew who had not been saved?

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

5. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?

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