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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 mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?
(a) Read the Bible with him.
(b) Make him dinner.
(c) Go for a walk with him.
(d) Make him tea.

2. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.
(b) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.
(c) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(d) He asks if he can make them the tea.

3. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?
(a) His mother had told everyone.
(b) It was in the Swahili newspaper.
(c) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.
(d) HIs father told everyone at church.

4. 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.

5. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?
(a) Family members who live near the school.
(b) White or Negro wives who spoke English.
(c) Friends from school.
(d) Their teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?

2. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?

3. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?

4. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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