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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of Laura's "rocks" for security?
(a) Church, her daughter, and liquor.
(b) The numbers, her daughter, and church.
(c) Men, the numbers, and liquor.
(d) Men, her daughter, and church.

2. What is Laura clutching at the end of the chapter as the two women make a decision?
(a) A Bible.
(b) An empty wine glass.
(c) A gambling ticket.
(d) A bottle of Jim Daniels.

3. What does Essie want to discuss with Laura?
(a) Getting a preaching license from city hall.
(b) Bringing Essie's daughter there.
(c) The idea for the church.
(d) Taking the bus to Brooklyn to visit Essie's mother.

4. What is distracting Laura from listening to Essie?
(a) Laura is talking on the phone.
(b) Laura is trying to figure out how to seduce the new man down the block.
(c) Laura is too busy worrying about where she's going to get some gambling money and wine.
(d) Laura is talking to a pimp.

5. How is the church a few blocks away doing?
(a) It folded in two weeks.
(b) Making no money, but saving lots of souls.
(c) Making lots of money.
(d) It's making enough money to pay the light bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be a general description of Essie?

2. How does Essie clean her nails?

3. What could the wine glass symbolize as far as Laura's character?

4. When do the women actually start preaching?

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

(see the answer key)

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