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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Buddy's conversion do to Essie?
(a) Makes her willing to let Marietta date him.
(b) Sends her into a long pause.
(c) Causes her to weep tears of joy.
(d) Makes her feel cynical.

2. To what does Birdie confess?
(a) That she slept with Buddy.
(b) How she allowed an innocent man to go to jail for a crime committed by a man she loved.
(c) To giving up her daughter for adoption.
(d) That she wished her father dead and he dies in an accident two days later.

3. Over what do the women argue in Chapter 7?
(a) Laura ruining the church's reputation.
(b) How to use the collection.
(c) Laura using the money for booze.
(d) Which Bible to buy.

4. What is distracting Laura from listening to Essie?
(a) Laura is talking on the phone.
(b) Laura is talking to a pimp.
(c) Laura is trying to figure out how to seduce the new man down the block.
(d) Laura is too busy worrying about where she's going to get some gambling money and wine.

5. What becomes the two women's church?
(a) The train station.
(b) Essie's apartment.
(c) The local Methodist chapel.
(d) The first floor in an old brownstone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sees Laura stabbing Buddy?

2. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

3. What does Essie do when Laura inspires her?

4. How does Laura inspire Essie?

5. Who does the painting of Adam resemble in Laura's imagination?

(see the answer key)

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