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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28 and 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Essie forbidden while Marietta is living with Laura and Essie?
(a) Buddy coming over at all.
(b) Buddy spending the night.
(c) Any alcohol in the house.
(d) Any men hanging around the house.

2. Who is evicted to make room for the church?
(a) A Southern family.
(b) Some rejects from Blecker Street.
(c) Some drifters.
(d) Some men moved in from the bowery.

3. Of what does Essie say there will be none?
(a) White choir members.
(b) White people attending.
(c) Black men in the church.
(d) Male ministers.

4. What angers Laura as she arrives at the church?
(a) That the flowers have not been put on the altar.
(b) That Buddy's car is not there and Birdie Lee is singing beautifully.
(c) That Essie is not there.
(d) That CJ and Marietta are smooching in Laura's dressing room.

5. Where do Essie and Marietta move?
(a) To a small house in the suburbs.
(b) No where new.
(c) To a condominium in Brooklyn.
(d) To an apartment in the same building as the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is Laura most interested?

2. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?

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

4. How often does Essie go to church?

5. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?

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