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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 ban him from going to church.
(b) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.
(c) He will be banished.
(d) They will blame his parents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.
(b) They have completed school.
(c) They have good jobs.
(d) They have more money than he does.

11. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
(a) Women have returned from the shambas.
(b) People are having Bible study.
(c) People have lit a fire for light.
(d) The evening is unusually cold.

12. 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.

13. 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) There is not way he would let Wamuhu marry such a scoundrel.
(d) He would be proud to call John his son.

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

15. 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) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(c) Adopted children.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?

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

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

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

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

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