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

2. About what is Essie worried?
(a) About how Laura seems ill.
(b) About how she can get out of the city with some money.
(c) About when she can bring her daughter to live with her.
(d) About the way Laura is carrying on.

3. What does Essie want to do with the money?
(a) Hire a real minister.
(b) Have two more murals painted.
(c) Buy hymnals.
(d) Bank it for a future need.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Essie want to discuss with Laura?

2. What would be a general description of Laura?

3. What does Laura plan to do when cold weather hits?

4. Why does Laura hire an artist?

5. What does Laura do after they are persuaded?

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