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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Laura leaves, what is she hoping?
(a) That Essie will reconsider.
(b) That a favorite of her many men friends will visit that night.
(c) To win the next ten thousand dollar pot at the tracks.
(d) That Essie doesn't bring her daughter there.

2. What does Essie think Laura should be thinking?
(a) Of the future.
(b) Of how they are going to keep the authorities from interferring.
(c) Of how to get the people to donate more money.
(d) Of the souls they're saving with their preaching.

3. Where do Buddy and Laura go?
(a) To the bus station to pick up Essie's daughter.
(b) Out for a night of drinking.
(c) To the City Hall to get a preaching license.
(d) To Laura's apartment.

4. How does Buddy refer to Laura and himself?
(a) As David and Bathsheba.
(b) As Adam and Eve.
(c) As the Bonnie and Clyde of religion.
(d) As the Humphrey and Bacall of religion.

5. What becomes the two women's church?
(a) The first floor in an old brownstone.
(b) Essie's apartment.
(c) The train station.
(d) The local Methodist chapel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Essie and Laura described on the first day of church in their new place?

2. What does Laura plan to do when cold weather hits?

3. What does Laura want to play a greater role in church services?

4. What sound is heard outside as Buddy and Laura talk?

5. What do Essie's imaginings lead her to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think the reason is for Essie's pauses, the first of which we see in Chapter 2?

2. Why do you think Essie refuses to throw away her knife as Laura urges her to do?

3. Why do you think Chapter 33 is titled "Watch with Me"?

4. There are two things that Essie mentions that foreshadow future events. Name two possible things that foreshadow future events and what you think they might foreshadow.

5. How does Laura "fight unfair" in Essie and Laura's argument in Chapter 13?

6. What do you think might be the significance of the title "Palm Sunday," of Chapter 1?

7. What does it say about Laura as a person to send Marietta downstairs to get Essie knowing what Marietta will find?

8. How do Laura's and Essie's roles reverse in this chapter?

9. How does previous foreshadowing play out in Chapter 30?

10. How do the images of light and dark represent the way the white man Marty is involved behind the scenes in the church?

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