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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Essie clean her nails?
(a) By scouring them with a brillo pad.
(b) By cutting them down to the quick.
(c) With a knife she keeps on her for protection.
(d) By soaking her fingers in soapy water.

2. What does Laura do after they are persuaded?
(a) Says "Amen."
(b) Begins to plan how to spend all her money.
(c) Says "God is Great."
(d) Starts preaching on the corner immediately.

3. 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 bottle of Jim Daniels.
(d) A gambling ticket.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Laura begin to sing?

3. Who is evicted to make room for the church?

4. Why does Laura hire an artist?

5. What happens after Essie joins in on the song?

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