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

2. Where does Essie say that the spark to convert has to come from?
(a) People's hearts.
(b) The music.
(c) God.
(d) Laura's sermons.

3. What does Chapter 6 describe?
(a) It is a detailed description of the Bible they bought.
(b) The first night the women go out to preach.
(c) The pimp who threatens them for stealing his members.
(d) The two women's contrasting appearances.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Essie want to do with the money?

2. Of what does Essie say there will be none?

3. What is Laura clutching at the end of the chapter as the two women make a decision?

4. What does Laura say she can provide?

5. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

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