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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 do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?
(a) He walked very far to get there.
(b) He is Susana's son.
(c) He has been seeing their daughter.
(d) He is the educated one from the village.

2. 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.

3. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) They have good jobs.
(b) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.
(c) They have completed school.
(d) They have more money than he does.

4. 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.

5. What does John worry will happen if the people of his village find out his secret?
(a) He will be banished.
(b) They will blame his parents.
(c) They will no longer hold him in high esteem.
(d) They will ban him from going to church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?

3. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

4. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?

5. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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