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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 the old woman who passes John while he walks alone carrying?
(a) Cassava.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Water.
(d) Kuni.

2. What does John call the old woman who passes him and asks how he is doing?
(a) Auntie.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Mother.

3. Why do so many at the tea shop know that John is soon heading for school in Uganda?
(a) It was in the Swahili newspaper.
(b) HIs father told everyone at church.
(c) His mother had told everyone.
(d) He told everyone when he arrived at the tea shop.

4. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People to marry if they are not in love.
(b) Men to marry circumcised women.
(c) People from different tribes to marry.
(d) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.

5. What does Wamuhu's mother tell John Wamuhu will do when she gets back to the hut if he waits?
(a) Go for a walk with him.
(b) Make him tea.
(c) Read the Bible with him.
(d) Make him dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does John "notice with bitterness" (61) he did not use when speaking to Wamuhu's mother?

2. Where does John tell the old woman he is going for school the following week?

3. What does Wamuhu's father cite as the thing that broke their tribe apart?

4. What do Wamuhu's parents know about John when he arrives at the hut?

5. What does John want to yell at his village as he walks alone in the beginning of "Meeting in the Dark"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John feel about his village as he walks alone just after leaving his parent's hut?

2. How does John feel about the men and women he passes in the village as he walks alone to Wamuhu's hut?

3. What does John's mother tell John when he returns to the hut after returning from the tea shop and why does this worry John?

4. In what ways is John said to be different than other educated boys who return to the village?

5. Where is Wamuhu when John arrives at her hut? How does his mother behave toward John?

6. What happens at the tea shop John goes to during his walk alone in the village and why?

7. Describe John's interaction with the old woman carrying a large load of Kuni he meets on his walk through the village?

8. What is Stanley's position on his son spending time with other girls?

9. What does John do as he prepares to leave his hut without telling his parents?

10. What does Wamuhu's father say after John leaves and his wife seems hopeful that John likes their daughter?

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