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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura discover after she has talked about her life for some time?
(a) That Buddy is asleep.
(b) That Essie isn't in the room anymore.
(c) That Essie is asleep.
(d) That Buddy does not believe her.

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

3. What central conflict does this chapter set up?
(a) The quests for earthly gratification and spiritual grace.
(b) Between the two woman over a man.
(c) The conflict between the two women over who gets to preach.
(d) The conflict between two Christian doctrines.

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

5. What does Laura plan to do when cold weather hits?
(a) She is not sure.
(b) Laura makes plans to rent an empty apartment, buy some chairs and a podium, and set up a church.
(c) Stand over the grate across the street to preach.
(d) Stop preaching for the winter.

6. Who joins Chicken-Crow-For-Day in reciting sins?
(a) Birdie Lee.
(b) Essie.
(c) Laura.
(d) A cop on the beat.

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

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

9. What does Laura do to keep the cops from stopping the preaching because of no license?
(a) Tells them God will fix their problems.
(b) Nothing since the problem has miraculously not happened.
(c) Gives them sex.
(d) Bribes them.

10. What is Essie's response to Laura's suggestion on buying the Bible?
(a) She faints.
(b) She is hesitant but knows it's the only way.
(c) She will take money out of her welfare payments because she does not want to start a church on gambling profits.
(d) She thinks it's a great idea.

11. What would be an accurate description as to how Laura is described in Chapter 3?
(a) Sad and homely.
(b) Joyful and meek.
(c) Slovenly.
(d) Attractive and sexual.

12. Who starts a church a few blocks from where Essie and Laura sit?
(a) A reformed alcoholic.
(b) An ex-cop.
(c) A reformed pimp.
(d) An active drug dealer.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura think Essie will think of Buddy and Laura's plan?

2. Where does Essie say that the spark to convert has to come from?

3. Why does Laura hire an artist?

4. What does the clerk give Essie when she pays off the Bible?

5. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

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