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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Women will never understand.
(b) She is just as hard on him.
(c) I am too easy on him.
(d) She has a point.

3. 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) When his mother got a job.
(d) After John was born.

4. 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 did his homework.
(b) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(c) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(d) John's father asks him when his journey is.

5. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?
(a) He fears his father is going to tell him he cannot go away to school.
(b) He fears his father is going to tell him he is moving out.
(c) He fears his father knows his secret.
(d) He fears his father lost his job.

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

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

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

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's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(b) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(c) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(d) John will not look at him.

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

11. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) One month.
(b) One week.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 8 weeks.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 hope to protect his son from?

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

5. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?

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