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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 does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?
(a) He fears his father knows his secret.
(b) He fears his father lost his job.
(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.

2. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(b) John will not look at him.
(c) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(d) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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