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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. How does Buddy threaten Laura?
(a) By telling her if she wants to keep him around she's got to put more money into him.
(b) That he will leave her if she keeps trying to suffocate him.
(c) That he is marrying the young woman if Laura does not give him 1000 dollars.
(d) By threatening to clue the cops in on the gambling operation.

2. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?
(a) Making it legal.
(b) Closing it in a year's time.
(c) Inviting a real minister to serve there.
(d) Essie is making plans for establishing a day care center in the church and doing other forms of good.

3. About what does Laura complain?
(a) That Marietta has talked about Laura meanly behind her back.
(b) That the drums always stop just before she's about to make her entrance.
(c) That Birdie Lee is not up to her usual standards of playing.
(d) That CJ isn't loud enough with the "Amen's."

4. What cliche does Laura quote to convince Essie?
(a) Ask and ye shall receive.
(b) The Lord helps those who help themselves.
(c) The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
(d) Ask not and you get not.

5. Who does Laura meet as she is closing the church one night?
(a) Birdie Lee.
(b) Chicken-Crow-For-Day.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Zora.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Laura want to start a church?

2. What does Laura say Buddy is going to become?

3. What has Essie forbidden while Marietta is living with Laura and Essie?

4. What does Laura do to gain the church space?

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

(see the answer key)

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