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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's father call his wife?
(a) Sister.
(b) Susie-dear.
(c) Susana.
(d) Love.

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

3. What is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?
(a) Reading a book.
(b) Cleaning the dishes.
(c) Washing clothes.
(d) Peeling potatoes.

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

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) Get a low-paying job.
(b) Sin.
(c) Move.
(d) Quit school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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