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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 adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Large and mean.
(b) Husky and strong.
(c) Frail but energetic.
(d) Elegant and intelligent.

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

3. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
(a) Kuni.
(b) Water.
(c) Laundry.
(d) Cassava.

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

5. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?
(a) They have good jobs.
(b) They have more money than he does.
(c) They have completed school.
(d) He feels they are not judged as harshly as educated men are.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

3. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?

4. What is John's father's name?

5. What is John's feeling toward his father?

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