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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) Internal conflict between families.
(b) Many moved away.
(c) Education.
(d) The white man's religion.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?

3. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?

4. 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?

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

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