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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 is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Against the tree outside his hut.
(b) At the bus stop.
(c) Ih his room at school.
(d) In the doorway of his hut.

2. What does John's father call his wife?
(a) Sister.
(b) Susie-dear.
(c) Love.
(d) Susana.

3. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to hear of before dismissing John from their conversation at the start of the story?
(a) He does not want to hear of any trouble.
(b) He does not want to hear John is disobeying his mother.
(c) He does not want to hear that John is not doing well in school.
(d) He does not want to hear that John has a girlfriend.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

2. What is John's feeling toward his father?

3. What is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?

4. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?

5. What is John's father's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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