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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30, 31 and 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Laura wonder as she is putting her purse away?
(a) Why the music in the church has stopped.
(b) If Buddy is going to leave her.
(c) Why it's impossible for a man to be a good man even when he's being treated like a good man.
(d) Why Essie still has such a ragged coat.

2. How does Essie get to the church?
(a) Walking.
(b) Driving her car.
(c) A ride with someone in the neighborhood.
(d) On the subway.

3. Approximately when does Chapter 19 take place?
(a) Just less than a year since Laura and Essie set up their church.
(b) About 2 months after Laura and Essie set up their church.
(c) Ten years after Laura and Essie set up their church.
(d) It is a flashback to a year before Laura and Essie set up their church.

4. How is the church a few blocks away doing?
(a) Making no money, but saving lots of souls.
(b) It folded in two weeks.
(c) It's making enough money to pay the light bill.
(d) Making lots of money.

5. What are some of Laura's "rocks" for security?
(a) Men, the numbers, and liquor.
(b) The numbers, her daughter, and church.
(c) Men, her daughter, and church.
(d) Church, her daughter, and liquor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about Chicken-Crow-For-Day saying he has been washed clean and white by the love of God?

2. Who seems smitten with Marietta?

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

4. As Laura leaves, what is she hoping?

5. What does Laura ask when Essie encourages her to read her Bible?

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