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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.
(d) They have more money than he does.

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

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 blame his parents.
(c) They will ban him from going to church.
(d) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.

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

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

6. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?
(a) Their teachers.
(b) Family members who live near the school.
(c) White or Negro wives who spoke English.
(d) Friends from school.

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

8. 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.

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 tells his parents he is going to bed.
(c) He lights his lantern.
(d) He tells his father not to go to his hut because he will be studying.

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

11. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?
(a) Like nothing has changed.
(b) With piety.
(c) Like Europeans.
(d) With humility.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?

2. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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

4. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?

5. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?

(see the answer keys)

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