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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Laura's robes like?
(a) Tailor cut.
(b) White for purity.
(c) Brightly colored.
(d) Drab.

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

3. How does Buddy describe Marty?
(a) As the power behind the throne all over Harlem.
(b) As a white boy who thinks he's conning the people of Harlem.
(c) As a white man who is in the know.
(d) As a white man who is a friend to Negros.

4. Who is Birdie Lee?
(a) A small girl who wants her mommie to be healed.
(b) A prostitute who brings a message from her pimp.
(c) A cop who is watching the women to make sure they are not doing anything illegal.
(d) A small elderly woman who steps forward and promises that from that night on she's giving her life to Jesus.

5. How does Laura picture Essie's role in the street corner church?
(a) Singing and then preaching when Laura sings.
(b) Singing and then fainting as if in ecstasy.
(c) Sitting quietly and occasionally singing.
(d) Sitting quietly and preaching.

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

7. How does Essie clean her nails?
(a) By cutting them down to the quick.
(b) By scouring them with a brillo pad.
(c) By soaking her fingers in soapy water.
(d) With a knife she keeps on her for protection.

8. What does Essie do when Laura inspires her?
(a) Sings a gospel church.
(b) Runs inside to get her Bible.
(c) Faints.
(d) Jumps up and starts preaching.

9. As Laura leaves, what is she hoping?
(a) To win the next ten thousand dollar pot at the tracks.
(b) That a favorite of her many men friends will visit that night.
(c) That Essie doesn't bring her daughter there.
(d) That Essie will reconsider.

10. What does Essie want to discuss with Laura?
(a) Taking the bus to Brooklyn to visit Essie's mother.
(b) Bringing Essie's daughter there.
(c) The idea for the church.
(d) Getting a preaching license from city hall.

11. What do the two say about Essie?
(a) That she is the reason the church saves so many souls.
(b) That her daughter refuses to move to New York.
(c) That Essie is much more serious about life than Laura.
(d) That she is judgmental.

12. Who starts a church a few blocks from where Essie and Laura sit?
(a) A reformed pimp.
(b) A reformed alcoholic.
(c) An ex-cop.
(d) An active drug dealer.

13. What does Laura do to gain the church space?
(a) Tells the landlord he can have 25 percent of the weekly collections.
(b) Threatens to turn in the landlord for code violations.
(c) Bribes the landlord and promises three months in advance rent.
(d) Invites the landlord to her home.

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

15. What is Laura clutching at the end of the chapter as the two women make a decision?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A gambling ticket.
(c) An empty wine glass.
(d) A bottle of Jim Daniels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has not yet bought any holy water?

2. What is Laura planning?

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

4. Approximately when does Chapter 19 take place?

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

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