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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28 and 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chicken-Crow-For-Day do?
(a) Proclaims himself as a dyed-in-the-wool sinner.
(b) Declares that he should be the new preacher.
(c) Proposes to Essie.
(d) Helps himself to some of the collections as they pass.

2. How does Laura feel towards Essie?
(a) She is angry that Essie moves.
(b) She misses her.
(c) She is jealous of Essie.
(d) She is glad she is not there anymore.

3. How are Essie and Laura described on the first day of church in their new place?
(a) As singing and preaching with a fervor that neither had ever had before.
(b) As angels of vengeance.
(c) As fearful of the police busting them.
(d) Not as enthusiastic as when they were on the street corner.

4. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?
(a) That she is keeping others from buying the holy water.
(b) That she is becoming too holy.
(c) That she actually believes what Laura preaches.
(d) That she is embezzling money from the church.

5. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?
(a) Closing it in a year's time.
(b) Making it legal.
(c) Essie is making plans for establishing a day care center in the church and doing other forms of good.
(d) Inviting a real minister to serve there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Laura as she arrives at the church?

2. What does going "North" mean to Southern Blacks at the time of this story?

3. How does Essie get to the church?

4. What becomes the two women's church?

5. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?

(see the answer key)

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