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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Buddy describe Marty?
(a) As the power behind the throne all over Harlem.
(b) As a white man who is a friend to Negros.
(c) As a white man who is in the know.
(d) As a white boy who thinks he's conning the people of Harlem.

5. What are Essie and Laura doing at the opening of this novel?
(a) At a horse race.
(b) Smoking on the stoop of the apartment.
(c) Comparing memories of the Palm Sundays, Easters, and church-going habits of their childhoods.
(d) Eating at Dewdrop diner.

6. For what does Laura say they need money?
(a) To pay an organist.
(b) To buy hymnals.
(c) For a tambourine and a Bible.
(d) To rent the local community center.

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 starlight.
(c) An image of a diamond in the rough.
(d) The glint of the diamond eyes of the serpent in the Adam and Eve mural at the church.

8. What does Chicken-Crow-For-Day do?
(a) Proposes to Essie.
(b) Helps himself to some of the collections as they pass.
(c) Proclaims himself as a dyed-in-the-wool sinner.
(d) Declares that he should be the new preacher.

9. How does Buddy refer to Laura and himself?
(a) As Adam and Eve.
(b) As David and Bathsheba.
(c) As the Humphrey and Bacall of religion.
(d) As the Bonnie and Clyde of religion.

10. What does Laura say Buddy is going to become?
(a) The new minister.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her bodyguard.
(d) Her business manager.

11. What does Laura say Essie can provide?
(a) The decorations.
(b) The flowers.
(c) The preaching.
(d) The music.

12. What does the clerk give Essie when she pays off the Bible?
(a) A bookmark with the 23rd Psalm on it.
(b) A picture of Jesus.
(c) A picture of the last supper.
(d) A wall hanging saying GOD BLESS THIS HOME.

13. Who has not yet bought any holy water?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Essie.
(c) Birdie Lee.
(d) Chicken-Crow-For-Day.

14. What does Laura think about the Lord's help?
(a) That the Lord helps them who helps themselves.
(b) That the Lord helps in abundance when the Spirit moves Laura to preach.
(c) That the Lord ain't never helped her before so why would he help now.
(d) That if the Lord is taking care of her, she can take care of her man.

15. What sound is heard outside as Buddy and Laura talk?
(a) A gunshot.
(b) A police bullhorn.
(c) The sound of screeching tires as someone comes to a sudden, dangerous stop.
(d) People singing gospel songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two say about Essie?

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

3. What might be a theme of this story symbolically portrayed in the final lines of this chapter?

4. What would be a general description of Essie?

5. How does Laura describe the church apartment?

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