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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who has Essie asked to come by and visit?
(a) The young lawyer down the street.
(b) No one.
(c) The choir director who can be a fatherly figure to Marietta.
(d) A respectable man from the church named C.J.

3. Over what do the women argue in Chapter 7?
(a) Laura ruining the church's reputation.
(b) Which Bible to buy.
(c) Laura using the money for booze.
(d) How to use the collection.

4. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?
(a) That she is keeping others from buying the holy water.
(b) That she is becoming too holy.
(c) That she is embezzling money from the church.
(d) That she actually believes what Laura preaches.

5. Approximately when does Chapter 19 take place?
(a) Just less than a year since Laura and Essie set up their church.
(b) About 2 months after Laura and Essie set up their church.
(c) Ten years after Laura and Essie set up their church.
(d) It is a flashback to a year before Laura and Essie set up their church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does going "North" mean to Southern Blacks at the time of this story?

2. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

3. What does Laura want to play a greater role in church services?

4. What is Laura planning?

5. What are some of Laura's "rocks" for security?

(see the answer key)

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