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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 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 reads his Bible.
(d) He yells back.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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) The importance of a good education.
(d) How Jesus had died for them.

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

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

10. 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 is moving out.
(b) He fears his father is going to tell him he cannot go away to school.
(c) He fears his father lost his job.
(d) He fears his father knows his secret.

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

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

13. 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) Against the tree outside his hut.
(c) In the doorway of his hut.
(d) Ih his room at school.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?

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

3. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

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

5. 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?

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