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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who sees Laura stabbing Buddy?
(a) CJ.
(b) Marietta.
(c) Birdie Lee.
(d) Essie.

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

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

5. What sustains Essie in the jail cell?
(a) Her knowledge that she did not kill Buddy.
(b) Her faith.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her belief that the police will find the real culprit.

6. What doesn't Essie miss?
(a) The screams and sirens in Harlem.
(b) The smell of alcohol.
(c) The gangs on the streets.
(d) The drugs on the streets.

7. How does Laura feel towards Essie?
(a) She is glad she is not there anymore.
(b) She is angry that Essie moves.
(c) She misses her.
(d) She is jealous of Essie.

8. Who does Laura accuse of killing Buddy?
(a) Essie.
(b) An unknown robber.
(c) Herself.
(d) CJ.

9. What does Buddy shout out?
(a) Hypocrite.
(b) There will probably be some numbers played with those texts the next day.
(c) Amen.
(d) Hallelujah.

10. What does going "North" mean to Southern Blacks at the time of this story?
(a) Anyplace north of the Mason/Dixon.
(b) Freedom to ride the bus anywhere they wanted, being able to shop in the same stores and drink sodas from the same soda fountains.
(c) Anyplace not in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana or Mississippi.
(d) Moving to Canada.

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

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

13. How do Laura and Essie react to Buddy's obvious attraction to Marietta?
(a) They both think it's ridiculous.
(b) They are amused.
(c) Laura becomes jealous, and Essie becomes protective.
(d) They decide to watch Buddy carefully around her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Marietta and CJ?

2. Who isn't around as much as he used to be?

3. How does Laura see Buddy as he is coming out of the shower?

4. When Buddy comes in, what does he say about Marty?

5. Why does Laura threaten Buddy?

(see the answer keys)

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