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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Christianity.

2. What is John's mother's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Lilith.
(c) Susana.
(d) Annie.

3. What is John's father's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Farmer.

4. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(b) John's father asks him when his journey is.
(c) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(d) John's father asks him if he did his homework.

5. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Evil influences.
(b) Not getting a good education.
(c) Disease.
(d) Danger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?

2. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?

3. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?

4. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

5. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John feel in his father's presence at the start of "Meeting in the Dark"? How does he think his father views him?

2. What worries John as he sits with his father at the start of the story?

3. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?

4. What does John's mother say to her husband after John leaves following their conversation?

5. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?

6. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

7. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?

8. What is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?

9. What question does John's father ask him which he has already answered many times at the start of "Meeting in the Dark"? What is John's reply?

10. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?

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