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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 does Chicken-Crow-For-Day do?
(a) Proposes to Essie.
(b) Helps himself to some of the collections as they pass.
(c) Proclaims himself as a dyed-in-the-wool sinner.
(d) Declares that he should be the new preacher.

2. What does Essie think Laura should be thinking?
(a) Of how to get the people to donate more money.
(b) Of the future.
(c) Of the souls they're saving with their preaching.
(d) Of how they are going to keep the authorities from interferring.

3. What does Laura want to do with the money?
(a) Donate it to the overseas mission fund.
(b) Get them better living quarters.
(c) Buy her man a car.
(d) Have a big party.

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

5. In what is Laura most interested?
(a) Moving out of Harlem.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Laura is imagining all the things she can do with all the money she can bring in if she plays the numbers racket as Buddy suggested.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumor is going around about Buddy?

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

3. How does Essie get to the church?

4. Why does Laura threaten Buddy?

5. How do Laura and Essie react to Buddy's obvious attraction to Marietta?

(see the answer key)

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