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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 is John's father's name?
(a) Ned.
(b) Sylvane.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Stanley.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?

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

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

4. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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 father seem to want to protect his son from?

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

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

10. 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?

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