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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 did John's parent live when John was very young?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Limuru.
(c) Fort Hall.
(d) Mombasa.

2. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Excessive leniency.
(b) Unconditional love.
(c) Tough love.
(d) Moral torture.

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

4. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) How Jesus had died for them.
(b) How to be a good man.
(c) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(d) The importance of a good education.

5. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?
(a) When his mother got a job.
(b) When he became a preacher.
(c) When John left for college.
(d) After John was born.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John's father call his wife?

4. What is John's mother's name?

5. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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