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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Lonely towns.
(b) Shanty towns.
(c) Mushroom towns.
(d) Sprawling towns.

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

10. 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) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.
(c) His mother had told everyone.
(d) HIs father told everyone at church.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does John find at the hut he goes to after dinner?

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

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

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

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