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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 7 - 9).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which writer wrote a story in the Detroit News trying to explain the Numbers to laypeople?
(a) John M. Carlisle.
(b) Moochie Jones.
(c) Roberta Flacker.
(d) Marshall Waltering.

2. Who did Davis's mother ask to help her buy the house since she could not directly purchase it on her own?
(a) Wallace Colvin.
(b) Marston James.
(c) Langston Finbone.
(d) Marshall Headly.

3. What does Aunt Florence tell Davis she was able to do by playing Jewell's number?
(a) Furnish her house.
(b) Buy her car.
(c) Send Jewell to college.
(d) Buy a second home.

4. What was the first Broadway musical Davis ever sees?
(a) Sweet Charity.
(b) The Wiz.
(c) The Producers.
(d) Oliver.

5. What did W.E.B. Dubois call educated and privileged Black people?
(a) The Twenty Percent.
(b) The Squad.
(c) The One Percent.
(d) The Talented Tenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two street gangs did Davis remember in Detroit in the 1980s?

2. Where did Davis work at a job as a teenager?

3. What does scholar Felicia George say the word luck originated as?

4. Which singer did Davis's mother take her to see in Detroit when she was 13 years old?

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

(see the answer key)

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