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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) Adopted children.
(d) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Holy.
(b) Pitiful.
(c) Majestic.
(d) Ugly.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

3. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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

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

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