A Meeting in the Dark Quizzes

A Meeting in the Dark Quiz 1

1 Where is Ngugi wa Thiong'o from?
Uganda

England

Kenya

South Africa
2 Who is the central character in the story?
John

Wamuhu

Susana

Stanley
3 What is the name of the village where the story takes place?
Merkele

Limuru

Capetown

Wamuhu
4 What does Stanley carry with him at all times?
A cross

A knife

A Bible

A notebook
5 What does Stanley call John?
John

The man

The boy

My son
6 What religion do Stanley and his family practice?
Christianity

Paganism

Islam

Buddhism
7 What has Stanley prohibited his wife from doing?
Shopping

Playing music in the hut

Going for walks

Telling John tribal stories
8 Why does Susana think Stanley is such a fervent preacher?
John was conceived out of wedlock.

He was raised by white parents.

He committed many sins in his past.

He feels abandoned by the tribe.
9 What does Stanley call Susana?
Dear

Sister

My wife

Susana
10 Why does John pity the woman he encounters on his first walk?
She is crazy.

She is poor.

She is uneducated.

She is disabled.
11 Where is John going for college?
England

South Africa

France

Uganda
12 When does John leave for college?
Tomorrow

Next month

Next year

Next week
13 Why does John leave a lantern lit in his hut?
To stay up late reading

To entice bugs to his hut

To signal to Wamuhu to come over

So his parents think he is home
14 Why is Wamuhu's father skeptical of John?
He is known to sleep around.

He is uneducated.

He is a Christian.

He is rude to Wamuhu.
15 What is the main reason Wamuhu's father does not think John will marry her?
John is insincere.

Wamuhu is circumcised.

Wamuhu does not care for John.

John's father will not allow it.
16 How far along is Wamuhu in her pregnancy?
Two weeks

Three months

Six months

Eight months
17 Who suspects that Wamuhu is pregnant?
Her father

Susana

Stanley

Her mother
18 What does Wamuhu tell John at their first meeting?
She is leaving him for somebody else.

She will give him one more day to make a decision.

She has already told her parents she is pregannt.

She is coming with him to college.
19 What does John dream about?
Ghosts fighting

Flowers growing

His own death

His father dying
20 Where does John think he is destined to end up?
Hell

England

The village

College
21 Whom does Wamuhu's father blame for the disintegration of the tribe?
John

Stanley

British colonizers

All the villagers
22 Where does John go with his parents the day before his last meeting with Wamuhu?
The shops

Wamuhu's family hut

Nowhere

A nearby village
23 Which of these is not something about the village that repulses John?
The potholes in the roads

Grass

The sun

Dust
24 What does John ask Wamuhu to do?
Come with him to college

Run away

Tell her parents about her pregnancy

Lie about the father of her child
25 Complete the final lines of the story: "Soon everyone will know that he has created and then ___" (70).
killed

run

destroyed

died

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