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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 is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?
2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
3. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
4. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
5. During what war is John's village said to have grown?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Stanley's position on his son spending time with other girls?
2. What does Wamuhu's father say after John leaves and his wife seems hopeful that John likes their daughter?
3. How does John feel about the men and women he passes in the village as he walks alone to Wamuhu's hut?
4. In what ways is John said to be different than other educated boys who return to the village?
5. Describe John's interaction with the old woman carrying a large load of Kuni he meets on his walk through the village?
6. What happens at the tea shop John goes to during his walk alone in the village and why?
7. Where is Wamuhu when John arrives at her hut? How does his mother behave toward John?
8. What does John do as he prepares to leave his hut without telling his parents?
9. 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?
10. How does John feel about his village as he walks alone just after leaving his parent's hut?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in "Meeting in the Dark." Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying 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
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?
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