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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Birdie confess?
(a) To giving up her daughter for adoption.
(b) That she slept with Buddy.
(c) That she wished her father dead and he dies in an accident two days later.
(d) How she allowed an innocent man to go to jail for a crime committed by a man she loved.

2. When does Marietta come to live with Essie?
(a) When she is 15.
(b) After her junior year of high school.
(c) After finishing high school.
(d) After college.

3. What does Birdie Lee say about generosity?
(a) How Laura though generous has a mean streak.
(b) How generous Essie was to her when they first met.
(c) That generosity well-placed is well rewarded.
(d) That the church can avoid a lawyer because of Essie's generosity.

4. How does Buddy see Laura?
(a) As a woman past her prime.
(b) As a beautiful cup of coffee with cream.
(c) As being too soft, too sweet, and about to melt like chocolate.
(d) As the light of his life.

5. What does Laura collect for each lucky text?
(a) A quarter.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A dime.
(d) Three pennies.

6. Who visits Essie in jail?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Birdie Lee.
(c) Laura.
(d) Marietta.

7. Who do the police arrest?
(a) A man hiding behind the garbage dump outside.
(b) Essie.
(c) Laura.
(d) CJ.

8. What doesn't Essie miss?
(a) The drugs on the streets.
(b) The smell of alcohol.
(c) The gangs on the streets.
(d) The screams and sirens in Harlem.

9. What does Buddy shout out?
(a) Amen.
(b) There will probably be some numbers played with those texts the next day.
(c) Hallelujah.
(d) Hypocrite.

10. While Buddy is kissing her, what does Laura do?
(a) Bites his lip.
(b) Cries.
(c) Stabs him in the back.
(d) Kicks him in the groin.

11. Why does Laura say she's going to put her purse in Essie's coat pocket?
(a) So Laura doesn't leave it in the church again like last night.
(b) To keep it safe.
(c) So Essie can get some money out of it for subway fare.
(d) To hide it from CJ.

12. Why is Buddy angry with Laura?
(a) Because he is jealous of the attention Laura receives at church.
(b) Because she is jealous of his other girlfriends.
(c) Because she does not throw him a towel.
(d) Because she won't do what he tells her about the church.

13. To what does Buddy admit?
(a) Taking 100 dollars from Laura's purse.
(b) Taking his new girlfriend gambling.
(c) Taking 100 dollars from Essie's purse.
(d) Fathering a child with a young white woman.

14. Where are Marietta and CJ?
(a) At CJ's apartment.
(b) In the church.
(c) At the apartment.
(d) In a park.

15. What does CJ want?
(a) To make love to Marietta.
(b) To marry Marietta.
(c) To date other women.
(d) To become a preacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Essie forbidden while Marietta is living with Laura and Essie?

2. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?

3. In what is Laura most interested?

4. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?

5. How often does Essie go to church?

(see the answer keys)

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