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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Church.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Schol.

2. 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 has a point.
(b) I am too easy on him.
(c) She is just as hard on him.
(d) Women will never understand.

3. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Judaism.

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) Move.
(b) Sin.
(c) Get a low-paying job.
(d) Quit school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?

2. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

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

4. What is John's father's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John's mother say to her husband after John leaves following their conversation?

2. What question does John's father ask him which he has already answered many times at the start of "Meeting in the Dark"? What is John's reply?

3. What is John's mother doing while John's father speaks to him before he goes for his walk?

4. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to do while in the village?

5. What worries John as he sits with his father at the start of the story?

6. What does John's father seem to want to protect his son from?

7. How does John feel in his father's presence at the start of "Meeting in the Dark"? How does he think his father views him?

8. What backstory of John's parents marriage and life is given at the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

9. How is John's father described at the start of "Meeting in the Dark" as John watches him walk toward their hut?

10. How did John's father's conversion to Christianity change their life?

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