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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) Susana.
(b) Lilith.
(c) Annie.
(d) Mary.

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

3. What is John's father's name?
(a) Ned.
(b) Sylvane.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Stanley.

4. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Not getting a good education.
(b) Evil influences.
(c) Disease.
(d) Danger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

2. What is John's father's occupation?

3. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

4. How does John's mother always refer to him?

5. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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