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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 6 describe?
(a) The two women's contrasting appearances.
(b) It is a detailed description of the Bible they bought.
(c) The first night the women go out to preach.
(d) The pimp who threatens them for stealing his members.

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

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

5. What rumor is going around about Buddy?
(a) That he is in jail for rape.
(b) That he is in cahoots with the police.
(c) That he is dating another woman.
(d) That he is dying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Marietta's response?

3. What happens as they pass the tambourine?

4. How much money have they accumulated at the opening of Chapter 13?

5. What does Essie want to do for the teens?

(see the answer key)

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