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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 hope to protect his son from?
3. What is John's feeling toward his father?
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 is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does John's mother say to her husband after John leaves following their conversation?
2. 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?
3. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?
4. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?
5. What is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?
6. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?
7. What worries John as he sits with his father at the start of the story?
8. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
9. 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?
10. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of "Meeting in the Dark." What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the story to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Pick a character from the story and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?
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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