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

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

3. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Limuru.
(c) Mombasa.
(d) Fort Hall.

4. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) 8 weeks.
(b) One month.
(c) 6 months.
(d) One week.

5. What is John's father's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?

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

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

4. What is John's feeling toward his father?

5. What is John's father's name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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. 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?

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

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

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