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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Mushroom towns.
(d) Shanty towns.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. 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) Bibles.
(c) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(d) Adopted children.

14. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Damn this place!
(b) I love you forever!
(c) I cannot leave you, my home!
(d) I hate you! You trapped me alive!

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

4. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

5. During what war is John's village said to have grown?

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