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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?
(a) He feels he looks at him with great respect.
(b) He feels he looks at him likehe is a child.
(c) He feels he looks at him with pity.
(d) He feels he looks at him like he is a sinner.

2. What is John's feeling toward his father?
(a) Fear.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Anger.
(d) Warmth.

3. What is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?
(a) Cleaning the dishes.
(b) Washing clothes.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Peeling potatoes.

4. What is John's father's name?
(a) Ned.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Sylvane.
(d) Stanley.

5. What is the main character's name?
(a) Paul.
(b) John.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Steven.

6. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(b) The importance of a good education.
(c) How Jesus had died for them.
(d) How to be a good man.

7. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?
(a) He reads his Bible.
(b) He yells back.
(c) He storms out of the hut.
(d) He smacks her.

8. How does John's mother always refer to him?
(a) The boy.
(b) John John.
(c) Little John.
(d) Little one.

9. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(b) John will not look at him.
(c) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(d) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.

10. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The shops.
(c) Schol.
(d) Church.

11. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) School books.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His change purse.
(d) A Bible.

12. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Husky and strong.
(b) Elegant and intelligent.
(c) Large and mean.
(d) Frail but energetic.

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

14. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?
(a) Because he had wanted a daughter.
(b) Because he never wanted a child.
(c) Because John was born out of sin.
(d) Because John like his mother better.

15. Who is the author of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Ngũgĩ Thomas.
(b) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(c) Thiong'o Achibe.
(d) John Thiong'o.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to hear of before dismissing John from their conversation at the start of the story?

2. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

3. What does John's father call his wife?

4. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

5. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?

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