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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. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?

2. What is John's feeling toward his father?

3. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?

4. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?

5. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

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 is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?

3. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?

4. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?

5. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?

6. What worries John as he sits with his father at the start of the story?

7. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?

8. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

9. What does John's mother say to her husband after John leaves following their conversation?

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

Write an essay examining the ending of "Meeting in the Dark." How did the ending fit into the storyline? Do you think the ending was effective? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the way the author uses minor characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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