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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) In the doorway of his hut.
(d) Ih his room at school.

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

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 that John has a girlfriend.
(b) He does not want to hear John is disobeying his mother.
(c) He does not want to hear of any trouble.
(d) He does not want to hear that John is not doing well in school.

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

5. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Islam.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John's mother always refer to him?

2. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?

3. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?

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

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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