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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 Essie watch while they are preaching and singing?
(a) For potential robbers.
(b) For anyone who seems to need encouragement to give.
(c) The people who are watching them.
(d) For an indication that God is actually present.

2. What doesn't Essie miss?
(a) The gangs on the streets.
(b) The screams and sirens in Harlem.
(c) The smell of alcohol.
(d) The drugs on the streets.

3. What does Laura give Buddy for his birthday?
(a) A custom suit.
(b) A Cadillac.
(c) A Buick.
(d) A Studebaker.

4. Where does Essie say that the spark to convert has to come from?
(a) People's hearts.
(b) Laura's sermons.
(c) The music.
(d) God.

5. About what does Laura wonder as she is putting her purse away?
(a) Why it's impossible for a man to be a good man even when he's being treated like a good man.
(b) Why Essie still has such a ragged coat.
(c) If Buddy is going to leave her.
(d) Why the music in the church has stopped.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the tone of his asking?

3. What does Essie want to do with the money?

4. About what does CJ seem surprised?

5. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?

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