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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. What plan do Laura and Buddy devise?
(a) To gradually get Essie out of the church altogether.
(b) To siphon money out of the church funds.
(c) To sell ordinary tap water as holy water from the river Jordan.
(d) To sell prayer indulgences.

2. What does Laura plan to do when cold weather hits?
(a) Stand over the grate across the street to preach.
(b) Laura makes plans to rent an empty apartment, buy some chairs and a podium, and set up a church.
(c) She is not sure.
(d) Stop preaching for the winter.

3. Who does the painting of Adam resemble in Laura's imagination?
(a) Joe Louis.
(b) Lanston Hughes.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Martin Luther King.

4. How long has it been since Essie has seen her daughter?
(a) A few months.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 1 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Laura describe the church apartment?

2. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

3. What are Essie and Laura doing at the opening of this novel?

4. Why does Laura begin to sing?

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

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