A Meeting in the Dark Quizzes

A Meeting in the Dark Quiz 1

1 Where is Ngugi wa Thiong'o from?
South Africa

Kenya

England

Uganda
2 Who is the central character in the story?
John

Susana

Stanley

Wamuhu
3 What is the name of the village where the story takes place?
Limuru

Capetown

Wamuhu

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

A notebook

A Bible

A knife
5 What does Stanley call John?
The boy

My son

The man

John
6 What religion do Stanley and his family practice?
Islam

Paganism

Buddhism

Christianity
7 What has Stanley prohibited his wife from doing?
Telling John tribal stories

Shopping

Going for walks

Playing music in the hut
8 Why does Susana think Stanley is such a fervent preacher?
He committed many sins in his past.

He feels abandoned by the tribe.

He was raised by white parents.

John was conceived out of wedlock.
9 What does Stanley call Susana?
My wife

Sister

Dear

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

She is poor.

She is crazy.

She is disabled.
11 Where is John going for college?
South Africa

Uganda

England

France
12 When does John leave for college?
Next week

Next year

Next month

Tomorrow
13 Why does John leave a lantern lit in his hut?
So his parents think he is home

To entice bugs to his hut

To signal to Wamuhu to come over

To stay up late reading
14 Why is Wamuhu's father skeptical of John?
He is a Christian.

He is rude to Wamuhu.

He is uneducated.

He is known to sleep around.
15 What is the main reason Wamuhu's father does not think John will marry her?
Wamuhu is circumcised.

John's father will not allow it.

Wamuhu does not care for John.

John is insincere.
16 How far along is Wamuhu in her pregnancy?
Two weeks

Six months

Eight months

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

Stanley

Her mother

Susana
18 What does Wamuhu tell John at their first meeting?
She is coming with him to college.

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

She has already told her parents she is pregannt.

She is leaving him for somebody else.
19 What does John dream about?
His father dying

His own death

Ghosts fighting

Flowers growing
20 Where does John think he is destined to end up?
England

College

Hell

The village
21 Whom does Wamuhu's father blame for the disintegration of the tribe?
All the villagers

John

British colonizers

Stanley
22 Where does John go with his parents the day before his last meeting with Wamuhu?
A nearby village

Wamuhu's family hut

The shops

Nowhere
23 Which of these is not something about the village that repulses John?
Dust

Grass

The potholes in the roads

The sun
24 What does John ask Wamuhu to do?
Lie about the father of her child

Run away

Tell her parents about her pregnancy

Come with him to college
25 Complete the final lines of the story: "Soon everyone will know that he has created and then ___" (70).
died

destroyed

killed

run

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