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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 is the educated one from the village.
(d) He has been seeing their daughter.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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 bows his head, says thank you and sits.
(c) He asks if he can make them the tea.
(d) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) It was in the Swahili newspaper.
(c) HIs father told everyone at church.
(d) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does John do before leaving his hut in hopes his father will not know he left?

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

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

5. 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?

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