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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marietta do at the church?
(a) Turns the overhead fan on hot days.
(b) Joins the choir.
(c) Passes around the collection plate.
(d) Plays the organ.

2. What does Essie say to Laura?
(a) Laura has been her friend, and that she'll make sure Laura gets a lawyer.
(b) She hopes she rots in hell.
(c) She hopes Laura will accept Jesus into her heart.
(d) She does not say anything.

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

4. What does CJ want?
(a) To marry Marietta.
(b) To make love to Marietta.
(c) To date other women.
(d) To become a preacher.

5. When Laura is alone, upon what does she reflect?
(a) That she wishes she were more like Essie.
(b) That she is at the height of her glory.
(c) That she wishes she had stayed in the South.
(d) That she's caught between Essie and Buddy - one too holy, the other not holy enough.

6. What does the visitor tell Essie?
(a) That the knife has Laura's fingerprints on it.
(b) That Birdie Lee told the police that she saw Laura kill Buddy.
(c) That Laura killed herself.
(d) That Buddy isn't dead as everyone thought and he told on Laura.

7. In what is Laura most interested?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Laura is imagining all the things she can do with all the money she can bring in if she plays the numbers racket as Buddy suggested.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Moving out of Harlem.

8. To what does Birdie confess?
(a) To giving up her daughter for adoption.
(b) How she allowed an innocent man to go to jail for a crime committed by a man she loved.
(c) That she wished her father dead and he dies in an accident two days later.
(d) That she slept with Buddy.

9. For what is Buddy hungry?
(a) A tuna sandwich.
(b) A rare steak.
(c) A plate of Southern fried chicken.
(d) Collard greens, Southern style.

10. Who spends less time at the apartment after Marietta moves in?
(a) Buddy and Laura.
(b) Laura.
(c) Buddy.
(d) CJ.

11. Who isn't around as much as he used to be?
(a) CJ.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Crow Boy.
(d) Marietta.

12. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?
(a) She is flirting with Buddy.
(b) She is taking too much attention away from Laura.
(c) She has to go to the bathroom too much.
(d) She is no longer playing the drums.

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

14. How does Laura see Buddy as he is coming out of the shower?
(a) As getting a little flabby.
(b) As handsome as the day they met.
(c) As a man past his prime.
(d) Hard and strong and sexy.

15. Who sees Laura stabbing Buddy?
(a) Marietta.
(b) CJ.
(c) Essie.
(d) Birdie Lee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Buddy angry with Laura?

2. What is the tone of his asking?

3. What does Laura collect for each lucky text?

4. What is Laura unable to hear from her end of the jail?

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

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