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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(b) John's father asks him when his journey is.
(c) John's father asks him if he did his homework.
(d) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.

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

3. What does John's father call his wife?
(a) Love.
(b) Sister.
(c) Susie-dear.
(d) Susana.

4. 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.

5. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Not getting a good education.
(b) Danger.
(c) Disease.
(d) Evil influences.

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

7. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?
(a) Admonish.
(b) Persecute.
(c) Threaten.
(d) Antagonize.

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

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

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

11. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Sin.
(b) Quit school.
(c) Move.
(d) Get a low-paying job.

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

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

14. 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?
(a) He does not want to hear of any trouble.
(b) He does not want to hear that John is not doing well in school.
(c) He does not want to hear that John has a girlfriend.
(d) He does not want to hear John is disobeying his mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?

3. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?

4. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

5. Who is the author of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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