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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wamuhu's mother say to her husband after John leaves?
(a) She feels Wamuhu is far too good for John.
(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 worries Wamuhu will break John's heart because she does not like him.

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

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

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

5. What is everyone said to know about John's nature?
(a) He is moody.
(b) He is polite.
(c) He is shy.
(d) He is gregarious.

6. Who does John nearly collide with upon leaving Wamuhu's hut?
(a) The old woman.
(b) His mother.
(c) Wamuhu.
(d) His father.

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

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

9. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?
(a) Ma'am.
(b) Sister.
(c) Auntie.
(d) Mother.

10. What is the name of the village John lives in and walks alone in at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?
(a) Nakuru.
(b) Mayuki.
(c) Kakumi.
(d) Makeno.

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

12. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?
(a) He is the educated one from the village.
(b) He walked very far to get there.
(c) He has been seeing their daughter.
(d) He is Susana's son.

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

14. During what war is John's village said to have grown?
(a) The Kikuyu war.
(b) The Makeno war.
(c) The Mau Mau.
(d) The Limuru war.

15. How does John respond when Wamuhu's mother asks him to sit and wait for Wamuhu?
(a) He thanks her profusely and shakes her hands.
(b) He asks if he can make them the tea.
(c) He bows his head, says thank you and sits.
(d) He mutters something and hurries out the hut.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does John want to see at the hut he goes to after dinner?

4. What does Wamuhu's father say to his wife after John leaves?

5. 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?

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