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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does John find at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) Wamuhu's parents.
(b) The old woman.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His old teacher.

5. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?
(a) Despair.
(b) Folding laundry.
(c) Hope.
(d) Cooking dinner.

6. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Kakumi.
(b) Mayuki.
(c) Nakuru.
(d) Makeno.

7. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?
(a) It was in the Swahili newspaper.
(b) His mother had told everyone.
(c) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.
(d) HIs father told everyone at church.

8. During what war is John's village said to have grown?
(a) The Makeno war.
(b) The Kikuyu war.
(c) The Mau Mau.
(d) The Limuru war.

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

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

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

12. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) They have completed school.
(b) They have good jobs.
(c) They have more money than he does.
(d) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.

13. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) Internal conflict between families.
(b) The white man's religion.
(c) Many moved away.
(d) Education.

14. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?
(a) His mother.
(b) Wamuhu.
(c) The old woman.
(d) His father.

15. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?
(a) Read the Bible with him.
(b) Make him tea.
(c) Go for a walk with him.
(d) Make him dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

2. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?

3. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

4. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

5. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

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