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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 5 - 6).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What business did Davis's mother run for decades?
(a) Pet shop.
(b) Hair salon.
(c) Numbers business.
(d) Accounting business.

2. What did customers who got hits on their numbers receive from Davis's mother?
(a) A fly sheet.
(b) A gun to carry their cash home safely.
(c) A complimentary mint.
(d) A bag to carry cash in.

3. Which of the big numbers men did Davis's mother work with in Chapter 3?
(a) Len Taylor.
(b) Mitzie Davis.
(c) Nathan Berry.
(d) Ezra Pound.

4. Which of the following authors does Davis begin the book with a quote from?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Langston Hughes.

5. Which reverend did Davis's mother think was a con man?
(a) Cotton Randall.
(b) Richard Willington.
(c) James F. Jones.
(d) Lindsay Wharton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jewell think a hunch on a number is?

2. Where did Davis's father sometimes work in Detroit?

3. When was Davis's mother's best decade as a Numbers runner?

4. What did Davis's mother tell her years into her adulthood about secrets?

5. What were specific formulas for supposedly finding lucky numbers called?

(see the answer key)

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