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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?
(a) He walked very far to get there.
(b) He is Susana's son.
(c) He has been seeing their daughter.
(d) He is the educated one from the village.

2. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?
(a) He is shy.
(b) He is polite.
(c) He is gregarious.
(d) He is moody.

3. What does John worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?
(a) He will be banished.
(b) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.
(c) They will ban him from going to church.
(d) They will blame his parents.

4. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?
(a) Mother.
(b) Ma'am.
(c) Auntie.
(d) Sister.

5. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
(a) People have lit a fire for light.
(b) People are having Bible study.
(c) Women have returned from the shambas.
(d) The evening is unusually cold.

6. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People from different tribes to marry.
(b) Men to marry circumcised women.
(c) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.
(d) People to marry if they are not in love.

7. What does John do before leaving his hut in hopes his father will not know he left?
(a) He tells his parents he is going to bed.
(b) He lights his lantern.
(c) He locks the door so nobody can come in.
(d) He tells his father not to go to his hut because he will be studying.

8. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?
(a) Makeno.
(b) Limuru.
(c) Makerere.
(d) Kikuma.

9. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?
(a) Sister.
(b) Auntie.
(c) Mother.
(d) Grandmother.

10. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Water.
(c) Kuni.
(d) Cassava.

11. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Holy.
(b) Pitiful.
(c) Majestic.
(d) Ugly.

12. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?
(a) Adopted children.
(b) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Alcohol.

13. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.
(b) She had suspected John liked Wamuhu and that he has a good reputation.
(c) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.
(d) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.

14. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.
(b) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(c) He asks if he can make them the tea.
(d) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.

15. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Mushroom towns.
(b) Lonely towns.
(c) Shanty towns.
(d) Sprawling towns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?

2. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

3. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?

4. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?

5. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?

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