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

2. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(b) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(c) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(d) John will not look at him.

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

4. 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 great respect.
(d) He feels he looks at him with pity.

5. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?
(a) Because John was born out of sin.
(b) Because he never wanted a child.
(c) Because John like his mother better.
(d) Because he had wanted a daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?

2. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?

3. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?

4. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to hear of before dismissing John from their conversation at the start of the story?

5. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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