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

2. Where does Essie want to open a nursery?
(a) In an abandoned home down the street.
(b) She has no plans for a nursery.
(c) In the basement of the church.
(d) Across the street above the bakery.

3. How are Essie and Laura described on the first day of church in their new place?
(a) As angels of vengeance.
(b) Not as enthusiastic as when they were on the street corner.
(c) As singing and preaching with a fervor that neither had ever had before.
(d) As fearful of the police busting them.

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

5. In what is Laura most interested?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Laura is imagining all the things she can do with all the money she can bring in if she plays the numbers racket as Buddy suggested.
(d) Moving out of Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is evicted to make room for the church?

2. What does Essie say at the end about Laura?

3. How does Essie clean her nails?

4. What has Birdie Lee done?

5. What would be a general description of Laura?

(see the answer key)

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