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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John do before leaving his hut in hopes his father will not know he left?
(a) He locks the door so nobody can come in.
(b) He tells his parents he is going to bed.
(c) He tells his father not to go to his hut because he will be studying.
(d) He lights his lantern.

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

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

4. What is the village John lives referred to as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Sprawling towns.
(b) Mushroom towns.
(c) Lonely towns.
(d) Shanty towns.

5. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.
(b) She had suspected John liked Wamuhu and that he has a good reputation.
(c) She had been worried something was going on between John and Wamuhu.
(d) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.

6. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?
(a) Family members who live near the school.
(b) Their teachers.
(c) White or Negro wives who spoke English.
(d) Friends from school.

7. What is Wamuhu's mother "preoccupied" (62) with when her husband asks her why she thinks John came?
(a) Cooking dinner.
(b) Hope.
(c) Folding laundry.
(d) Despair.

8. What does Wamuhu's father say people who left the village to learn the white man's religion brought back to the village when they returned?
(a) White wives or Black wives who spoke English.
(b) Bibles.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Adopted children.

9. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?
(a) He reminds his wife that their daughter has been circumcised.
(b) He would be proud to call John his son.
(c) He does not think an educated man like John would be interested in their daughter.
(d) There is not way he would let Wamuhu marry such a scoundrel.

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

11. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?
(a) Nephew.
(b) My child.
(c) Son.
(d) Brother.

12. How are some of the educated boys who return to the village said to act?
(a) With piety.
(b) Like Europeans.
(c) Like nothing has changed.
(d) With humility.

13. Who does John find at the hut he goes to after dinner?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His old teacher.
(c) The old woman.
(d) Wamuhu's parents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John envy the young men and women he passes on the street at night?

2. What is the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?

3. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?

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

5. What does the smoke John sees coming out of the huts as he walks alone indicate?

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