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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. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?
2. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
3. 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?
4. What is John's feeling toward his father?
5. What is John's father's occupation?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?
5. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?
6. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?
7. 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?
8. What is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?
9. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?
10. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay examining the structure of the story. How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Genre is a category assigned to a literary work. What are some genres that could be used to classify the story? What is the main genre of the story? Do you think this genre is most effective? Explain.
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