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

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

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) Schol.
(c) The shops.
(d) A restaurant.

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

5. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?
(a) Admonish.
(b) Antagonize.
(c) Persecute.
(d) Threaten.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?

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

4. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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