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

4. What does Essie imagine doing with the church?
(a) Making it legal.
(b) Closing it in a year's time.
(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.

5. Where do Essie and Marietta move?
(a) To a small house in the suburbs.
(b) To an apartment in the same building as the church.
(c) No where new.
(d) To a condominium in Brooklyn.

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

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

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

9. Who does CJ say he will beat up?
(a) Buddy for stealing from Marietta.
(b) No one.
(c) Buddy or any man who tries to take advantage of Marietta.
(d) Any man who does not respect Essie.

10. About what does Laura wonder as she is putting her purse away?
(a) If Buddy is going to leave her.
(b) Why the music in the church has stopped.
(c) Why it's impossible for a man to be a good man even when he's being treated like a good man.
(d) Why Essie still has such a ragged coat.

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

12. About what does CJ seem surprised?
(a) When Marietta says she loves him.
(b) When Marietta says she wants to be a writer.
(c) When Marietta says she is moving back to the South.
(d) When CJ learns he is accepted into Columbia University.

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

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

15. What angers Laura as she arrives at the church?
(a) That Buddy's car is not there and Birdie Lee is singing beautifully.
(b) That Essie is not there.
(c) That CJ and Marietta are smooching in Laura's dressing room.
(d) That the flowers have not been put on the altar.