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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) She is just as hard on him.
(b) I am too easy on him.
(c) She has a point.
(d) Women will never understand.

2. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Excessive leniency.
(b) Unconditional love.
(c) Tough love.
(d) Moral torture.

3. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) His change purse.
(b) School books.
(c) His shoes.
(d) A Bible.

4. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Quit school.
(b) Sin.
(c) Get a low-paying job.
(d) Move.

5. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?
(a) He feels he looks at him like he is a sinner.
(b) He feels he looks at him likehe is a child.
(c) He feels he looks at him with pity.
(d) He feels he looks at him with great respect.

6. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?
(a) The shops.
(b) Schol.
(c) Church.
(d) A restaurant.

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

8. What is John's mother's name?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Susana.
(c) Annie.
(d) Mary.

9. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Fort Hall.
(c) Mombasa.
(d) Limuru.

10. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?
(a) When John left for college.
(b) When his mother got a job.
(c) When he became a preacher.
(d) After John was born.

11. What is John's feeling toward his father?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Fear.
(c) Warmth.
(d) Anger.

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

13. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) One month.
(b) One week.
(c) 8 weeks.
(d) 6 months.

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

15. 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 did his homework.
(b) John's father asks him when his journey is.
(c) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(d) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?

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

3. Who is the author of "Meeting in the Dark"?

4. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?

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

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