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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does John worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?
(a) He will be banished.
(b) They will ban him from going to church.
(c) They will blame his parents.
(d) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.

6. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(b) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.
(c) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.
(d) He asks if he can make them the tea.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. 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) Kakumi.
(d) Nakuru.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?

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

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