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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 Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) Internal conflict between families.
(b) Education.
(c) Many moved away.
(d) The white man's religion.

2. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Nakuru.
(b) Mayuki.
(c) Makeno.
(d) Kakumi.

3. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People to marry if they are not in love.
(b) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.
(c) People from different tribes to marry.
(d) Men to marry circumcised women.

4. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?
(a) He is polite.
(b) He is shy.
(c) He is gregarious.
(d) He is moody.

5. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?
(a) Bibles.
(b) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(c) Adopted children.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

2. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

3. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?

4. Who does John find at the hut he goes to after dinner?

5. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John feel about the men and women he passes in the village as he walks alone to Wamuhu's hut?

2. What does John's mother tell John when he returns to the hut after returning from the tea shop and why does this worry John?

3. What does John do as he prepares to leave his hut without telling his parents?

4. Where is Wamuhu when John arrives at her hut? How does his mother behave toward John?

5. What does Wamuhu's father say after John leaves and his wife seems hopeful that John likes their daughter?

6. How does John feel about his village as he walks alone just after leaving his parent's hut?

7. What is Stanley's position on his son spending time with other girls?

8. In what ways is John said to be different than other educated boys who return to the village?

9. Describe John's interaction with the old woman carrying a large load of Kuni he meets on his walk through the village?

10. What happens at the tea shop John goes to during his walk alone in the village and why?

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