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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Approximately when does Chapter 19 take place?
(a) It is a flashback to a year before Laura and Essie set up their church.
(b) Ten years after Laura and Essie set up their church.
(c) Just less than a year since Laura and Essie set up their church.
(d) About 2 months after Laura and Essie set up their church.

6. What happens after Essie joins in on the song?
(a) Someone yells at them to be quiet.
(b) Essie becomes inspired and everyone gets quiet to hear her.
(c) Others join.
(d) Laura stops and starts to pass the hat.

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

8. Why does Laura hire an artist?
(a) To paint murals of a black Adam and Eve and other Biblical scenes.
(b) To sketch line drawings of Biblical scenes on the pews.
(c) To inscribe the name of the church on a piece of slate.
(d) To do a portrait of Laura to hang in the church.

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

10. What plan do Laura and Buddy devise?
(a) To siphon money out of the church funds.
(b) To sell prayer indulgences.
(c) To gradually get Essie out of the church altogether.
(d) To sell ordinary tap water as holy water from the river Jordan.

11. 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 Essie kicks her to make her behave.
(d) Because Birdie drops a ten-dollar bill in the collection plate.

12. Why does Laura begin to sing?
(a) To express how good she feels.
(b) To cheer up Essie.
(c) To get the people's attention.
(d) To praise the Lord.

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

14. When Laura encourages Essie, what does Essie do?
(a) Begins to sob instead of crying quietly.
(b) Prays with more fervency.
(c) Sings louder.
(d) Falls silent and becomes very still, entering into one of the "pauses" into which she frequently falls.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Laura planning?

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

4. What does Laura want from Essie the next morning?

5. What is Laura clutching at the end of the chapter as the two women make a decision?

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