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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they name the new church in the theater?
(a) The Reed Sisters'Tambourine Temple.
(b) The Reed Sister's Praise and Gospel Hour.
(c) The LE Praise and Gospel Hour.
(d) L & E's singin' and praisin'.

2. Where do Buddy and Laura go?
(a) To Laura's apartment.
(b) To the bus station to pick up Essie's daughter.
(c) Out for a night of drinking.
(d) To the City Hall to get a preaching license.

3. What does the image of Buddy and Laura's sparkling eyes invoke?
(a) The glint of steel as it is about to kill someone.
(b) An image of starlight.
(c) The glint of the diamond eyes of the serpent in the Adam and Eve mural at the church.
(d) An image of a diamond in the rough.

4. What does Laura say Essie can provide?
(a) The flowers.
(b) The decorations.
(c) The preaching.
(d) The music.

5. What is distracting Laura from listening to Essie?
(a) Laura is talking to a pimp.
(b) Laura is trying to figure out how to seduce the new man down the block.
(c) Laura is talking on the phone.
(d) Laura is too busy worrying about where she's going to get some gambling money and wine.

6. What does Essie do after they are persuaded?
(a) Gets on her knees and prays.
(b) Starts dancing and singing gospel songs.
(c) Hugs Laura.
(d) Calls to the neighbors to tell them.

7. Who does Laura meet as she is closing the church one night?
(a) Zora.
(b) Birdie Lee.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Chicken-Crow-For-Day.

8. What sound is heard outside as Buddy and Laura talk?
(a) A gunshot.
(b) People singing gospel songs.
(c) The sound of screeching tires as someone comes to a sudden, dangerous stop.
(d) A police bullhorn.

9. 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.

10. What becomes the two women's church?
(a) The first floor in an old brownstone.
(b) The train station.
(c) Essie's apartment.
(d) The local Methodist chapel.

11. Why does Laura's resentment to Birdie Lee vanish?
(a) Because Birdie drops a ten-dollar bill in the collection plate.
(b) Because the collection is larger than normal after Birdie comes forward.
(c) Because Essie kicks her to make her behave.
(d) Because she realizes the spirit of the Lord is upon Birdie.

12. Who is evicted to make room for the church?
(a) Some drifters.
(b) Some men moved in from the bowery.
(c) Some rejects from Blecker Street.
(d) A Southern family.

13. How does Essie describe the Bible she finds?
(a) Large, ornately decorated, and expensive.
(b) Worn but functional.
(c) Small and easily held.
(d) One that has pictures.

14. Where does Essie say that the spark to convert has to come from?
(a) God.
(b) The music.
(c) People's hearts.
(d) Laura's sermons.

15. What does Laura do to keep the cops from stopping the preaching because of no license?
(a) Nothing since the problem has miraculously not happened.
(b) Gives them sex.
(c) Tells them God will fix their problems.
(d) Bribes them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what do the women argue in Chapter 7?

2. How long has it been since Essie has seen her daughter?

3. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

4. What does Laura think about the Lord's help?

5. When do the women actually start preaching?

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