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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 55 - 58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) How to avoid trouble in the village.
(b) How Jesus had died for them.
(c) The importance of a good education.
(d) How to be a good man.

2. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) Women will never understand.
(b) She has a point.
(c) I am too easy on him.
(d) She is just as hard on him.

3. Who is the author of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) John Thiong'o.
(b) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
(c) Ngũgĩ Thomas.
(d) Thiong'o Achibe.

4. How does John's mother always refer to him?
(a) The boy.
(b) Little John.
(c) Little one.
(d) John John.

5. What is John's mother's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Susana.
(c) Annie.
(d) Lilith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

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 words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

4. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?

5. What is John's father's occupation?

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