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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Laura picture Essie's role in the street corner church?
(a) Sitting quietly and occasionally singing.
(b) Singing and then fainting as if in ecstasy.
(c) Singing and then preaching when Laura sings.
(d) Sitting quietly and preaching.

2. What would be a general description of Essie?
(a) Essie is petite with a size 18" waist, has a beautiful singing voice, and has a six-year-old daughter.
(b) Essie is overweight, has a beautiful singing voice, and has a sixteen-year-old daughter.
(c) Essie is about 65, loves walking in the woods and canning fruits.
(d) Essie is almost 18, is fond of liquor and men.

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

4. What are some of Laura's "rocks" for security?
(a) The numbers, her daughter, and church.
(b) Men, the numbers, and liquor.
(c) Men, her daughter, and church.
(d) Church, her daughter, and liquor.

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

6. What does Laura want to do with the money?
(a) Buy her man a car.
(b) Donate it to the overseas mission fund.
(c) Get them better living quarters.
(d) Have a big party.

7. Who is evicted to make room for the church?
(a) Some rejects from Blecker Street.
(b) Some drifters.
(c) A Southern family.
(d) Some men moved in from the bowery.

8. What does Laura want to play a greater role in church services?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Sermons.
(c) Healing.
(d) Music.

9. What does Laura say about Essie that is hurtful?
(a) That Essie doesn't care about bringing her daughter there.
(b) That Essie only cares about others and not Laura.
(c) That Essie is overweight.
(d) That Essie can't sing.

10. Of what does Essie say there will be none?
(a) Black men in the church.
(b) Male ministers.
(c) White people attending.
(d) White choir members.

11. How does Essie describe the Bible she finds?
(a) One that has pictures.
(b) Worn but functional.
(c) Large, ornately decorated, and expensive.
(d) Small and easily held.

12. In Chapter 4, what do the two women argue about concerning the Bible?
(a) Whether they should read from it at the opening of the preaching.
(b) If they even need a Bible since both have many verses memorized.
(c) Getting a less expensive Bible.
(d) What percentage of their first day's take will go towards its purchase.

13. What does Essie want to discuss with Laura?
(a) Getting a preaching license from city hall.
(b) Bringing Essie's daughter there.
(c) Taking the bus to Brooklyn to visit Essie's mother.
(d) The idea for the church.

14. Of what do they persuade each other?
(a) That the idea could work.
(b) That it is a foolish pipe dream.
(c) That the devil inspired them.
(d) That God inspired them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be an accurate description as to how Laura is described in Chapter 3?

2. What is the reason for the time they arrive?

3. What does Laura think about the Lord's help?

4. To whom does Laura liken many of her personality traits?

5. When do the women arrive at the street corner?

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