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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) I love you forever!
(b) I cannot leave you, my home!
(c) Damn this place!
(d) I hate you! You trapped me alive!

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

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

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

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

7. 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 dinner.
(c) Make him tea.
(d) Go for a walk with him.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

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

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

5. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?

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