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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 did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) The importance of a good education.
(b) How Jesus had died for them.
(c) How to be a good man.
(d) How to avoid trouble in the village.

2. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Frail but energetic.
(b) Husky and strong.
(c) Elegant and intelligent.
(d) Large and mean.

3. 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.

4. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) One month.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 8 weeks.
(d) One week.

5. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) His change purse.
(b) School books.
(c) His shoes.
(d) A Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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