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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the visitor tell Essie?
(a) That Buddy isn't dead as everyone thought and he told on Laura.
(b) That Birdie Lee told the police that she saw Laura kill Buddy.
(c) That Laura killed herself.
(d) That the knife has Laura's fingerprints on it.

3. Who seems smitten with Marietta?
(a) Most of the congregation.
(b) A young, black lawyer who just moved in down the street.
(c) The white beat cop.
(d) Buddy.

4. How is Marietta described?
(a) Tiny, delicate, and beautiful.
(b) Very light skinned with light eyes.
(c) About the same size as Essie.
(d) Large but proportionally shaped.

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

6. What does Buddy ask for after showering?
(a) A ride uptown.
(b) Sex.
(c) Money.
(d) Booze.

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

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

9. 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 CJ and Marietta are smooching in Laura's dressing room.
(c) That Essie is not there.
(d) That the flowers have not been put on the altar.

10. What is Laura unable to hear from her end of the jail?
(a) Essie weeping bitterly.
(b) Essie singing a song of praise.
(c) A crowd chanting for her execution.
(d) Essie praying fervently for Laura's soul.

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?

2. What does Laura collect for each lucky text?

3. Who spends less time at the apartment after Marietta moves in?

4. How does Buddy see Laura?

5. Upon what does Marietta muse?

(see the answer keys)

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