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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Buddy shout out?
(a) Hypocrite.
(b) There will probably be some numbers played with those texts the next day.
(c) Hallelujah.
(d) Amen.

2. Who has Essie asked to come by and visit?
(a) The young lawyer down the street.
(b) A respectable man from the church named C.J.
(c) No one.
(d) The choir director who can be a fatherly figure to Marietta.

3. What does Laura collect for each lucky text?
(a) Three pennies.
(b) A quarter.
(c) A dime.
(d) Nothing.

4. What happens when Buddy speaks crudely about how young the "bitch" is?
(a) Laura starts crying.
(b) Laura becomes very calm.
(c) Laura tells Buddy to leave the church and never return.
(d) Laura screams curse words at Buddy.

5. To what does Buddy admit?
(a) Taking 100 dollars from Essie's purse.
(b) Fathering a child with a young white woman.
(c) Taking 100 dollars from Laura's purse.
(d) Taking his new girlfriend gambling.

6. How do Laura and Essie react to Buddy's obvious attraction to Marietta?
(a) They are amused.
(b) They both think it's ridiculous.
(c) They decide to watch Buddy carefully around her.
(d) Laura becomes jealous, and Essie becomes protective.

7. 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.

8. How often does Essie go to church?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Daily.
(c) Three times a week.
(d) On Sundays.

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

10. Why does Laura threaten Buddy?
(a) Because she thinks he plans to let Marty take over the church.
(b) Because she doesn't want him to hurt Marietta.
(c) Because he borrowed some money from her and has not paid it back.
(d) Because she is jealous that he is trying to seduce Marietta.

11. What does Birdie Lee say about generosity?
(a) That the church can avoid a lawyer because of Essie's generosity.
(b) That generosity well-placed is well rewarded.
(c) How generous Essie was to her when they first met.
(d) How Laura though generous has a mean streak.

12. What sustains Essie in the jail cell?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her knowledge that she did not kill Buddy.
(c) Her belief that the police will find the real culprit.
(d) Her faith.

13. What rumor is going around about Buddy?
(a) That he is dying.
(b) That he is in jail for rape.
(c) That he is dating another woman.
(d) That he is in cahoots with the police.

14. How does Buddy see Laura?
(a) As being too soft, too sweet, and about to melt like chocolate.
(b) As a beautiful cup of coffee with cream.
(c) As the light of his life.
(d) As a woman past her prime.

15. About what does Laura complain?
(a) That the drums always stop just before she's about to make her entrance.
(b) That Birdie Lee is not up to her usual standards of playing.
(c) That Marietta has talked about Laura meanly behind her back.
(d) That CJ isn't loud enough with the "Amen's."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura hear two women saying about Buddy?

2. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?

3. While Buddy is kissing her, what does Laura do?

4. Who sees Laura stabbing Buddy?

5. What does CJ promise to Marietta?

(see the answer keys)

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