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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
2. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to hear of before dismissing John from their conversation at the start of the story?
3. What is John's mother's name?
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?
5. What does John's father call his wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?
2. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?
3. What worries John as he sits with his father at the start of the story?
4. 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?
5. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?
6. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?
7. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
8. 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?
9. What does John's mother say to her husband after John leaves following their conversation?
10. What is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance of John's father’s position as a preacher. Why is this important and how does it develop the themes of the story? What would be different if his family were not Christian? Use examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay comparing and contrasting John and Wamuhu in "Meeting in the Dark." What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? What is their background? Describe their relationship, beliefs, and interactions. In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Thiong'o's commentary on religion in "Meeting in the Dark." How is religion important to the story? How does it affect the narrative? Use textual evidence to explain your analysis.
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