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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 Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?

2. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

3. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?

4. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?

5. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John feel about his village as he walks alone just after leaving his parent's hut?

2. What happens at the tea shop John goes to during his walk alone in the village and why?

3. Describe John's interaction with the old woman carrying a large load of Kuni he meets on his walk through the village?

4. What does John's mother tell John when he returns to the hut after returning from the tea shop and why does this worry John?

5. What is Stanley's position on his son spending time with other girls?

6. How does John feel about the men and women he passes in the village as he walks alone to Wamuhu's hut?

7. In what ways is John said to be different than other educated boys who return to the village?

8. Where is Wamuhu when John arrives at her hut? How does his mother behave toward John?

9. What does John do as he prepares to leave his hut without telling his parents?

10. What does Wamuhu's father say after John leaves and his wife seems hopeful that John likes their daughter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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