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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. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) Church.
(c) Schol.
(d) The shops.

2. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?
(a) He fears his father knows his secret.
(b) He fears his father lost his job.
(c) He fears his father is going to tell him he cannot go away to school.
(d) He fears his father is going to tell him he is moving out.

3. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?
(a) Admonish.
(b) Antagonize.
(c) Persecute.
(d) Threaten.

4. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Elegant and intelligent.
(b) Husky and strong.
(c) Large and mean.
(d) Frail but energetic.

5. What is John's feeling toward his father?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Warmth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?

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

3. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

4. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

5. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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