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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30, 31 and 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura say Essie can provide?
(a) The decorations.
(b) The preaching.
(c) The flowers.
(d) The music.

2. What is Laura now doing at Buddy's suggestion?
(a) Having three services each Sunday.
(b) Changes from the sale of holy water to the sale of bone chips from the disciples.
(c) Implements Buddy's idea to announce gambling numbers from the stage of the church.
(d) Having a service three times a week.

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

4. As Laura leaves, what is she hoping?
(a) That Essie will reconsider.
(b) That Essie doesn't bring her daughter there.
(c) To win the next ten thousand dollar pot at the tracks.
(d) That a favorite of her many men friends will visit that night.

5. What does Essie want to do with the money?
(a) Buy hymnals.
(b) Have two more murals painted.
(c) Bank it for a future need.
(d) Hire a real minister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Essie feel about the new apartment?

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

4. How does Buddy see Laura?

5. Who is the woman that Laura calls a "bitch"?

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