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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Makeno.
(c) Nakuru.
(d) Mayuki.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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 would be proud to call John his son.
(c) He reminds his wife that their daughter has been circumcised.
(d) There is not way he would let Wamuhu marry such a scoundrel.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?

3. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?

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

5. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?

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