A Meeting in the Dark Quizzes

A Meeting in the Dark Quiz 1

1 Where is Ngugi wa Thiong'o from?
England

Uganda

Kenya

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

Stanley

John

Susana
3 What is the name of the village where the story takes place?
Capetown

Limuru

Wamuhu

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

A knife

A Bible

A notebook
5 What does Stanley call John?
The boy

John

The man

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

Islam

Paganism

Buddhism
7 What has Stanley prohibited his wife from doing?
Playing music in the hut

Shopping

Telling John tribal stories

Going for walks
8 Why does Susana think Stanley is such a fervent preacher?
He feels abandoned by the tribe.

He committed many sins in his past.

He was raised by white parents.

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

My wife

Susana

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

She is crazy.

She is disabled.

She is poor.
11 Where is John going for college?
France

South Africa

Uganda

England
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?
To signal to Wamuhu to come over

To stay up late reading

So his parents think he is home

To entice bugs to his hut
14 Why is Wamuhu's father skeptical of John?
He is uneducated.

He is known to sleep around.

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's father will not allow it.

Wamuhu does not care for John.

Wamuhu is circumcised.

John is insincere.
16 How far along is Wamuhu in her pregnancy?
Six months

Two weeks

Eight months

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

Stanley

Susana

Her mother
18 What does Wamuhu tell John at their first meeting?
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.

She is leaving him for somebody else.
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?
The village

England

College

Hell
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?
Nowhere

Wamuhu's family hut

A nearby village

The shops
23 Which of these is not something about the village that repulses John?
Grass

The potholes in the roads

Dust

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

Tell her parents about her pregnancy

Run away

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).
destroyed

died

killed

run

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