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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) Islam.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Judaism.

2. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) She is just as hard on him.
(b) I am too easy on him.
(c) She has a point.
(d) Women will never understand.

3. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) One week.
(b) One month.
(c) 8 weeks.
(d) 6 months.

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 to avoid trouble in the village.
(b) How Jesus had died for them.
(c) How to be a good man.
(d) The importance of a good education.

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

Short Answer 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?

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

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

4. What is John's father's occupation?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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