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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has Essie asked to come by and visit?
(a) The choir director who can be a fatherly figure to Marietta.
(b) A respectable man from the church named C.J.
(c) The young lawyer down the street.
(d) No one.

3. About what is Essie concerned?
(a) Laura's spending habits.
(b) Laura's alcohol consumption.
(c) Marietta's pregnancy.
(d) Laura's health.

4. As Laura is getting into her robes, who does she want to come see her?
(a) CJ.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Marietta.
(d) Birdie Lee.

5. Why does Laura say she's going to put her purse in Essie's coat pocket?
(a) So Essie can get some money out of it for subway fare.
(b) So Laura doesn't leave it in the church again like last night.
(c) To keep it safe.
(d) To hide it from CJ.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Marietta come to live with Essie?

2. What is Laura unable to hear from her end of the jail?

3. What does going "North" mean to Southern Blacks at the time of this story?

4. About what does Laura complain?

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

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