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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. How does John's mother always refer to him?
(a) The boy.
(b) Little one.
(c) John John.
(d) Little John.

2. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Sin.
(b) Get a low-paying job.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Move.

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

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

5. What is the main character's name?
(a) Steven.
(b) John.
(c) Paul.
(d) Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?

3. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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