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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ban him from going to church.
(d) They will blame his parents.

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

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

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

5. 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) Damn this place!
(d) I love you forever!

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

7. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.
(b) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.
(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.

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

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

10. What does John do before leaving his hut in hopes his father will not know he left?
(a) He lights his lantern.
(b) He tells his parents he is going to bed.
(c) He tells his father not to go to his hut because he will be studying.
(d) He locks the door so nobody can come in.

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

14. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?
(a) Son.
(b) Nephew.
(c) Brother.
(d) My child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?

2. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

3. 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?

4. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?

5. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?

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