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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 ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
2. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?
3. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
4. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?
5. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
2. What worries John as he sits with his father at the start of the story?
3. What does John's mother say to her husband after John leaves following their conversation?
4. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?
5. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?
6. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?
7. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?
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 is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story's themes?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay examining John’s dream in "Meeting in the Dark." What happens in the dream? What might the dream symbolize? How does John’s dream develop the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the author of "Meeting in the Dark." Who is he? What else has he written? How is "Meeting in the Dark" similar or different from his other works?
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