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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura do with all her money before she came to jail?
(a) Gave it to Marty.
(b) Hid it where no one can find it.
(c) Put it all in the church's account.
(d) Gave it to Marietta.

2. What rumor is going around about Buddy?
(a) That he is in cahoots with the police.
(b) That he is in jail for rape.
(c) That he is dying.
(d) That he is dating another woman.

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

4. How does Essie get to the church?
(a) Driving her car.
(b) On the subway.
(c) A ride with someone in the neighborhood.
(d) Walking.

5. Who is the woman that Laura calls a "bitch"?
(a) A new girl up from Georgia.
(b) The daughter of a former friend of Laura's.
(c) A talented singer whom Marty is bankrolling in the belief that she'll have a great career.
(d) A friend of Marietta's.

6. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?
(a) That she actually believes what Laura preaches.
(b) That she is becoming too holy.
(c) That she is embezzling money from the church.
(d) That she is keeping others from buying the holy water.

7. What does Buddy's conversion do to Essie?
(a) Causes her to weep tears of joy.
(b) Makes her willing to let Marietta date him.
(c) Makes her feel cynical.
(d) Sends her into a long pause.

8. What is the tone of his asking?
(a) Rough-edged.
(b) Teasing.
(c) Gentle.
(d) Pleading.

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

10. Who spends less time at the apartment after Marietta moves in?
(a) Buddy.
(b) CJ.
(c) Laura.
(d) Buddy and Laura.

11. As Laura is getting into her robes, who does she want to come see her?
(a) Birdie Lee.
(b) CJ.
(c) Marietta.
(d) Buddy.

12. What is Laura now doing at Buddy's suggestion?
(a) Having a service three times a week.
(b) Having three services each Sunday.
(c) Changes from the sale of holy water to the sale of bone chips from the disciples.
(d) Implements Buddy's idea to announce gambling numbers from the stage of the church.

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

14. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?
(a) Closing it in a year's time.
(b) Making it legal.
(c) Essie is making plans for establishing a day care center in the church and doing other forms of good.
(d) Inviting a real minister to serve there.

15. What has Essie forbidden while Marietta is living with Laura and Essie?
(a) Any alcohol in the house.
(b) Any men hanging around the house.
(c) Buddy spending the night.
(d) Buddy coming over at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Laura is alone, upon what does she reflect?

2. Who seems smitten with Marietta?

3. What is Laura unable to hear from her end of the jail?

4. Upon what does Marietta muse?

5. How often does Essie go to church?

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