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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 complain?
(a) That CJ isn't loud enough with the "Amen's."
(b) That Marietta has talked about Laura meanly behind her back.
(c) That the drums always stop just before she's about to make her entrance.
(d) That Birdie Lee is not up to her usual standards of playing.

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

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

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

5. In what is Laura most interested?
(a) Moving out of Harlem.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Laura is imagining all the things she can do with all the money she can bring in if she plays the numbers racket as Buddy suggested.

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

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

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

9. Who do the police arrest?
(a) Laura.
(b) Essie.
(c) CJ.
(d) A man hiding behind the garbage dump outside.

10. Who isn't around as much as he used to be?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Crow Boy.
(c) CJ.
(d) Marietta.

11. Why is Laura unhappy about Birdie Lee?
(a) She is taking too much attention away from Laura.
(b) She has to go to the bathroom too much.
(c) She is flirting with Buddy.
(d) She is no longer playing the drums.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Buddy hungry?

2. Who seems smitten with Marietta?

3. About what does CJ seem surprised?

4. What does Buddy ask for after showering?

5. What does CJ promise to Marietta?

(see the answer keys)

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