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

2. What literary technique is used after the description of the tambourine being passed?
(a) An alliteration.
(b) A flashback.
(c) An allegory.
(d) A metaphor.

3. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?
(a) Of not understanding Jesus's statement, "Render unto Caesar."
(b) Of not really being committed to the church idea.
(c) Of being too holy and too self righteous.
(d) Of hypocrisy.

4. What do the two say about Essie?
(a) That Essie is much more serious about life than Laura.
(b) That she is the reason the church saves so many souls.
(c) That she is judgmental.
(d) That her daughter refuses to move to New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Laura say they need money?

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

3. Where does Essie say that the spark to convert has to come from?

4. What does the image of Buddy and Laura's sparkling eyes invoke?

5. What does Chapter 6 describe?

(see the answer key)

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