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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Birdie Lee done?
(a) Gotten the entire congregation to picket the jail.
(b) Paid a private investigator to find out the truth about Buddy.
(c) Birdie Lee has come to see Essie, and has brought a lawyer.
(d) Sworn on the Bible that she is telling the truth.

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

3. Where are Marietta and CJ?
(a) At CJ's apartment.
(b) In the church.
(c) At the apartment.
(d) In a park.

4. What is Laura unable to hear from her end of the jail?
(a) A crowd chanting for her execution.
(b) Essie singing a song of praise.
(c) Essie praying fervently for Laura's soul.
(d) Essie weeping bitterly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Laura as she arrives at the church?

2. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?

3. Upon what does Marietta muse?

4. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?

5. What is likely foreshadowed in the scene between Buddy and Laura in Chapter 27?

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