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

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

4. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?
(a) He would be proud to call John his son.
(b) There is not way he would let Wamuhu marry such a scoundrel.
(c) He reminds his wife that their daughter has been circumcised.
(d) He does not think an educated man like John would be interested in their daughter.

5. 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) Make him dinner.
(d) Go for a walk with him.

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

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

8. 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) Alcohol.
(c) Bibles.
(d) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.

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

10. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) The old woman.
(b) Wamuhu.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His old teacher.

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

12. 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 hate you! You trapped me alive!
(c) Damn this place!
(d) I cannot leave you, my home!

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

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

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