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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 the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Kakumi.
(b) Makeno.
(c) Mayuki.
(d) Nakuru.

2. What is John's mother's name?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Annie.
(c) Mary.
(d) Susana.

3. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Excessive leniency.
(b) Tough love.
(c) Unconditional love.
(d) Moral torture.

4. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
(a) People have lit a fire for light.
(b) Women have returned from the shambas.
(c) People are having Bible study.
(d) The evening is unusually cold.

5. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Mombasa.
(c) Limuru.
(d) Fort Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

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 John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

4. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?

5. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

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