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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 want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) I love you forever!
(b) I cannot leave you, my home!
(c) I hate you! You trapped me alive!
(d) Damn this place!

2. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?
(a) The white man's religion.
(b) Internal conflict between families.
(c) Education.
(d) Many moved away.

3. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?
(a) The evening is unusually cold.
(b) People are having Bible study.
(c) People have lit a fire for light.
(d) Women have returned from the shambas.

4. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) His best friend.
(b) The old woman.
(c) His old teacher.
(d) Wamuhu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?

2. What is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?

3. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?

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

5. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?

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