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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 words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Tough love.
(b) Unconditional love.
(c) Excessive leniency.
(d) Moral torture.

2. 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) Quit school.
(d) Move.

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

4. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) How Jesus had died for them.
(b) The importance of a good education.
(c) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(d) How to be a good man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main character's name?

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?

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

4. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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