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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Laura's resentment to Birdie Lee vanish?
(a) Because the collection is larger than normal after Birdie comes forward.
(b) Because she realizes the spirit of the Lord is upon Birdie.
(c) Because Birdie drops a ten-dollar bill in the collection plate.
(d) Because Essie kicks her to make her behave.

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

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

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

7. What does Laura ask when Essie encourages her to read her Bible?
(a) She really can't read too well.
(b) She knows enough of the Bible already.
(c) She knows she is saved even without a Bible.
(d) Where is the begats section.

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

9. What is Laura planning?
(a) How to leverage Essie out of the church.
(b) Where her new dressing room will be.
(c) Her new sermons.
(d) To marry Buddy.

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

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

12. What literary technique is used after the description of the tambourine being passed?
(a) An alliteration.
(b) A flashback.
(c) An allegory.
(d) A metaphor.

13. What does Chapter 6 describe?
(a) The pimp who threatens them for stealing his members.
(b) The two women's contrasting appearances.
(c) It is a detailed description of the Bible they bought.
(d) The first night the women go out to preach.

14. How long has it been since Essie has seen her daughter?
(a) A few months.
(b) 1 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 10 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Essie feel about the new apartment?

2. What does Essie think Laura should be thinking?

3. What does Laura discover after she has talked about her life for some time?

4. What does Chicken-Crow-For-Day throw out the window?

5. What does Laura do to gain the church space?

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