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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 63 - 70.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does John's father call his wife?
(a) Sister.
(b) Love.
(c) Susana.
(d) Susie-dear.

3. What does John do to Wamuhu at the end of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) He asks her to convert so they can marry.
(b) He tells her he is happy they are having a baby.
(c) He proposes to her.
(d) He kills her.

4. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?
(a) Limuru.
(b) Makeno.
(c) Kikuma.
(d) Makerere.

5. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?
(a) Auntie.
(b) Sister.
(c) Grandmother.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

2. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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

4. What does Wamuhu ask John during the discussion?

5. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

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