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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(d) He asks if he can make them the tea.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) I hate you! You trapped me alive!
(c) I love you forever!
(d) Damn this place!

13. 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 no longer hold him in high esteem.
(c) They will blame his parents.
(d) He will be banished.

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

15. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?
(a) He has been seeing their daughter.
(b) He walked very far to get there.
(c) He is Susana's son.
(d) He is the educated one from the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?

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

(see the answer keys)

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