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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. Why does Laura say she's going to put her purse in Essie's coat pocket?
(a) To hide it from CJ.
(b) So Essie can get some money out of it for subway fare.
(c) To keep it safe.
(d) So Laura doesn't leave it in the church again like last night.

2. Who has not yet bought any holy water?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Birdie Lee.
(c) Chicken-Crow-For-Day.
(d) Essie.

3. What could the wine glass symbolize as far as Laura's character?
(a) The wine Laura will offer in communion at church.
(b) Seeing through a glass darkly.
(c) Self-destruction.
(d) A casting off of an old way of life.

4. When Laura is alone, upon what does she reflect?
(a) That she's caught between Essie and Buddy - one too holy, the other not holy enough.
(b) That she is at the height of her glory.
(c) That she wishes she were more like Essie.
(d) That she wishes she had stayed in the South.

5. What plan do Laura and Buddy devise?
(a) To sell ordinary tap water as holy water from the river Jordan.
(b) To sell prayer indulgences.
(c) To siphon money out of the church funds.
(d) To gradually get Essie out of the church altogether.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be a general description of Laura?

2. What central conflict does this chapter set up?

3. How is Marietta described?

4. How does Essie get to the church?

5. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?

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