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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Alcohol.
(b) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(c) Adopted children.
(d) Bibles.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Makeno.
(b) Mayuki.
(c) Nakuru.
(d) Kakumi.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?

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

4. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?

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

(see the answer keys)

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