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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does John go the evening after he and his father had gone shopping?
(a) To see Wamuhu.
(b) To get the train to school.
(c) To see the old lady.
(d) To church.

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

3. Why does John say he had come to see Wamuhu that evening?
(a) Because they had discussed waiting a week before she told her parents.
(b) He wanted to ask her to marry him.
(c) Because he missed her.
(d) He wanted to say goodbye before going to school.

4. How much time does Wamuhu agreed to wait before telling her parents she is pregnant?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 3 weeks.

5. How does John feel the village looks as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Majestic.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Holy.
(d) Pitiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?

2. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

3. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

4. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?

5. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?

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