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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) The shops.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) Schol.
(d) Church.

2. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?
(a) He smacks her.
(b) He reads his Bible.
(c) He yells back.
(d) He storms out of the hut.

3. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) A Bible.
(b) School books.
(c) His change purse.
(d) His shoes.

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?
(a) Women will never understand.
(b) She is just as hard on him.
(c) I am too easy on him.
(d) She has a point.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main character's name?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 does John feel in his father's presence at the start of "Meeting in the Dark"? How does he think his father views him?

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

10. 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?

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