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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what is Laura most interested?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) 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.
(c) Moving out of Harlem.
(d) Buddy.

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

3. 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 the music in the church has stopped.
(c) If Buddy is going to leave her.
(d) Why Essie still has such a ragged coat.

4. What do Laura and Buddy believe about Essie?
(a) That she is keeping others from buying the holy water.
(b) That she actually believes what Laura preaches.
(c) That she is embezzling money from the church.
(d) That she is becoming too holy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Marietta described?

2. To what does Essie compare her fear at this time?

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

4. Who does CJ say he will beat up?

5. Upon what does Marietta muse?

(see the answer keys)

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