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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23, 24 and 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Marietta muse?
(a) How she feels less excited in CJ's arms versus Buddy's arms.
(b) How she doesn't like being up North.
(c) That she is afraid to walk the streets of Harlem.
(d) That she wants to go to college like CJ.

2. How long has it been since Essie has seen her daughter?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) A few months.
(d) 1 years.

3. About what is Essie worried?
(a) About when she can bring her daughter to live with her.
(b) About how Laura seems ill.
(c) About how she can get out of the city with some money.
(d) About the way Laura is carrying on.

4. What do Buddy and Laura do as a new scarlet curtain is hung as a backdrop for the services?
(a) Tell off-color jokes.
(b) Flirt.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing gospel songs.

5. When Laura encourages Essie, what does Essie do?
(a) Sings louder.
(b) Begins to sob instead of crying quietly.
(c) Falls silent and becomes very still, entering into one of the "pauses" into which she frequently falls.
(d) Prays with more fervency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is distracting Laura from listening to Essie?

2. What does Laura do to keep the cops from stopping the preaching because of no license?

3. What do the two say about Essie?

4. What does Laura plan to do when cold weather hits?

5. What does Buddy shout out?

(see the answer key)

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