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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Essie and Laura doing at the opening of this novel?
(a) Comparing memories of the Palm Sundays, Easters, and church-going habits of their childhoods.
(b) At a horse race.
(c) Smoking on the stoop of the apartment.
(d) Eating at Dewdrop diner.

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

3. What could the wine glass symbolize as far as Laura's character?
(a) Seeing through a glass darkly.
(b) A casting off of an old way of life.
(c) The wine Laura will offer in communion at church.
(d) Self-destruction.

4. What would be an accurate description as to how Laura is described in Chapter 3?
(a) Slovenly.
(b) Attractive and sexual.
(c) Joyful and meek.
(d) Sad and homely.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starts a church a few blocks from where Essie and Laura sit?

2. What central conflict does this chapter set up?

3. What does Laura say about Essie that is hurtful?

4. What does Essie want to do with the money?

5. What might be a theme of this story symbolically portrayed in the final lines of this chapter?

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