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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Laura see Buddy as he is coming out of the shower?
(a) As a man past his prime.
(b) As handsome as the day they met.
(c) Hard and strong and sexy.
(d) As getting a little flabby.

2. What happens when Buddy speaks crudely about how young the "bitch" is?
(a) Laura becomes very calm.
(b) Laura screams curse words at Buddy.
(c) Laura tells Buddy to leave the church and never return.
(d) Laura starts crying.

3. What is likely foreshadowed in the scene between Buddy and Laura in Chapter 27?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) A possible reconciliation.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Serious trouble in their relationship.

4. What does Essie say to Laura?
(a) She hopes she rots in hell.
(b) Laura has been her friend, and that she'll make sure Laura gets a lawyer.
(c) She does not say anything.
(d) She hopes Laura will accept Jesus into her heart.

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

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

7. When Buddy comes in, what does he say about Marty?
(a) That Marty has been murdered.
(b) That Marty has gotten religion.
(c) That Marty wants a bigger take.
(d) How happy Marty is that business with the Lucky Texts is making so much money.

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

9. How does Buddy threaten Laura?
(a) By threatening to clue the cops in on the gambling operation.
(b) That he will leave her if she keeps trying to suffocate him.
(c) By telling her if she wants to keep him around she's got to put more money into him.
(d) That he is marrying the young woman if Laura does not give him 1000 dollars.

10. What does CJ promise to Marietta?
(a) To be faithful.
(b) To not date anyone seriously.
(c) To never leave her.
(d) To respect her.

11. What does Marietta do at the church?
(a) Plays the organ.
(b) Turns the overhead fan on hot days.
(c) Passes around the collection plate.
(d) Joins the choir.

12. Who has Essie asked to come by and visit?
(a) No one.
(b) The choir director who can be a fatherly figure to Marietta.
(c) The young lawyer down the street.
(d) A respectable man from the church named C.J.

13. What has Birdie Lee done?
(a) Paid a private investigator to find out the truth about Buddy.
(b) Birdie Lee has come to see Essie, and has brought a lawyer.
(c) Sworn on the Bible that she is telling the truth.
(d) Gotten the entire congregation to picket the jail.

14. What do CJ and Marietta want to do after the church service?
(a) Go to the movies.
(b) Go get hamburgers.
(c) Go to some friends' home for board games.
(d) Go to the Jazz festival.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marietta's response?

2. Who do the police arrest?

3. To what does Essie compare her fear at this time?

4. What does Laura hear two women saying about Buddy?

5. What is Laura now doing at Buddy's suggestion?

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