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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 58 - 62 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Disease.
(b) Danger.
(c) Evil influences.
(d) Not getting a good education.

2. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People from different tribes to marry.
(b) Men to marry circumcised women.
(c) People to marry if they are not in love.
(d) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.

3. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Mayuki.
(b) Kakumi.
(c) Nakuru.
(d) Makeno.

4. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(b) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(c) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(d) John will not look at him.

5. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(b) John's father asks him if he did his homework.
(c) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(d) John's father asks him when his journey is.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

3. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?

4. What does John's father call his wife?

5. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?

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