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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 sell ordinary tap water as holy water from the river Jordan.
(b) To gradually get Essie out of the church altogether.
(c) To sell prayer indulgences.
(d) To siphon money out of the church funds.

2. How much money have they accumulated at the opening of Chapter 13?
(a) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(b) One thousand dollars.
(c) Ten thousand dollars.
(d) Two thousand dollars.

3. What central conflict does this chapter set up?
(a) Between the two woman over a man.
(b) The conflict between the two women over who gets to preach.
(c) The quests for earthly gratification and spiritual grace.
(d) The conflict between two Christian doctrines.

4. Who is evicted to make room for the church?
(a) Some rejects from Blecker Street.
(b) Some drifters.
(c) Some men moved in from the bowery.
(d) A Southern family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Laura begin to sing?

2. What is the reason for the time they arrive?

3. How are Essie and Laura described on the first day of church in their new place?

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

5. What does Essie think Laura should be thinking?

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