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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what is Essie concerned?
(a) Marietta's pregnancy.
(b) Laura's health.
(c) Laura's spending habits.
(d) Laura's alcohol consumption.

3. How often does Essie go to church?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Daily.
(c) On Sundays.
(d) Three times a week.

4. What is Marietta's response?
(a) She wants to marry.
(b) She is a nice girl with morals.
(c) She thinks it's a good idea to date others.
(d) She would love him to become a preacher.

5. What does Essie wish she had stopped Laura from doing?
(a) From being so free and ostentatious with money.
(b) From lying about the knife.
(c) From avoiding being saved.
(d) From giving gambling tips in the sermons.

6. Upon what does Marietta muse?
(a) That she wants to go to college like CJ.
(b) How she feels less excited in CJ's arms versus Buddy's arms.
(c) That she is afraid to walk the streets of Harlem.
(d) How she doesn't like being up North.

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

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

9. What does Laura suggest about Marietta?
(a) That Essie try to get CJ to propose marriage.
(b) That Marietta is seeing Buddy on the sly.
(c) That Marietta is as loose as Laura is.
(d) That she be sent back to the South to protect her morals.

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

11. What does Laura hear two women saying about Buddy?
(a) That he has left New York.
(b) That he has secretly married a woman much younger than he.
(c) That a handsome man like him is a "cross to bear" for the woman in his life.
(d) That he has taken over the west side gambling.

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

13. When Laura is alone, upon what does she reflect?
(a) That she wishes she were more like Essie.
(b) That she wishes she had stayed in the South.
(c) That she is at the height of her glory.
(d) That she's caught between Essie and Buddy - one too holy, the other not holy enough.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Buddy angry with Laura?

2. As Laura is getting into her robes, who does she want to come see her?

3. What rumor is going around about Buddy?

4. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?

5. What has Birdie Lee done?

(see the answer keys)

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