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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 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 be a good man.
(b) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(c) How Jesus had died for them.
(d) The importance of a good education.

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

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

5. 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) Schol.
(c) The shops.
(d) Church.

6. 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.

7. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?
(a) Islam.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Christianity.

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

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

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

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

12. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?
(a) At the bus stop.
(b) Ih his room at school.
(c) Against the tree outside his hut.
(d) In the doorway of his hut.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?

4. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?

5. What is John's father's occupation?

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