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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 are some of Laura's "rocks" for security?
(a) Men, the numbers, and liquor.
(b) Men, her daughter, and church.
(c) Church, her daughter, and liquor.
(d) The numbers, her daughter, and church.

2. What does going "North" mean to Southern Blacks at the time of this story?
(a) Anyplace north of the Mason/Dixon.
(b) Moving to Canada.
(c) Freedom to ride the bus anywhere they wanted, being able to shop in the same stores and drink sodas from the same soda fountains.
(d) Anyplace not in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana or Mississippi.

3. About what is Essie concerned?
(a) Laura's alcohol consumption.
(b) Laura's health.
(c) Marietta's pregnancy.
(d) Laura's spending habits.

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

5. Of what do they persuade each other?
(a) That the devil inspired them.
(b) That it is a foolish pipe dream.
(c) That the idea could work.
(d) That God inspired them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura discover after she has talked about her life for some time?

2. How does Essie feel about the new apartment?

3. Who has not yet bought any holy water?

4. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?

5. What is likely foreshadowed in the scene between Buddy and Laura in Chapter 27?

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