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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they name the new church in the theater?
(a) L & E's singin' and praisin'.
(b) The LE Praise and Gospel Hour.
(c) The Reed Sister's Praise and Gospel Hour.
(d) The Reed Sisters'Tambourine Temple.

2. What does Chicken-Crow-For-Day throw out the window?
(a) A quarter.
(b) His bottle of whiskey.
(c) His shoes because they have walked tainted streets.
(d) His throws his pistol and knife.

3. What do Essie's imaginings lead her to do?
(a) Dance.
(b) Sing.
(c) Cry.
(d) Pray.

4. What does Essie do after they are persuaded?
(a) Gets on her knees and prays.
(b) Starts dancing and singing gospel songs.
(c) Calls to the neighbors to tell them.
(d) Hugs Laura.

5. What does Laura say she can provide?
(a) The muscle men to keep everyone safe.
(b) Inspirational preaching.
(c) The organ music.
(d) Gambling numbers.

6. What do the two say about Essie?
(a) That her daughter refuses to move to New York.
(b) That Essie is much more serious about life than Laura.
(c) That she is judgmental.
(d) That she is the reason the church saves so many souls.

7. What does the image of Buddy and Laura's sparkling eyes invoke?
(a) The glint of steel as it is about to kill someone.
(b) An image of a diamond in the rough.
(c) The glint of the diamond eyes of the serpent in the Adam and Eve mural at the church.
(d) An image of starlight.

8. About what is Essie worried?
(a) About the way Laura is carrying on.
(b) About when she can bring her daughter to live with her.
(c) About how she can get out of the city with some money.
(d) About how Laura seems ill.

9. When do the women actually start preaching?
(a) Early July.
(b) Late February.
(c) Right after the New Year.
(d) Well into Spring.

10. Who does the painting of Adam resemble in Laura's imagination?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Lanston Hughes.
(c) Joe Louis.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

11. Where do Buddy and Laura go?
(a) Out for a night of drinking.
(b) To the bus station to pick up Essie's daughter.
(c) To the City Hall to get a preaching license.
(d) To Laura's apartment.

12. How is the church a few blocks away doing?
(a) Making lots of money.
(b) It folded in two weeks.
(c) Making no money, but saving lots of souls.
(d) It's making enough money to pay the light bill.

13. How does Laura describe the church apartment?
(a) An Ethiopian Garden of Eden.
(b) A Garden of Cornucopia delights.
(c) The Ethiopian paradise.
(d) The garden after Eve's fall.

14. What does Laura think Essie will think of Buddy and Laura's plan?
(a) She'll be upset.
(b) She'll wish she had thought of it.
(c) She will turn them in to the authorities.
(d) She'll think it's ingenious.

15. When do the women arrive at the street corner?
(a) An hour later than planned.
(b) Right on time.
(c) An hour earlier than planned.
(d) A day later than planned.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Of what is Laura still jealous?

4. What would be a general description of Essie?

5. What happens as they pass the tambourine?

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