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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owned the Hotel Gotham for a time?
(a) Marshall Wilton.
(b) Woodrow Allen.
(c) Maynard Keynes.
(d) John White.

2. Where did Davis's father sometimes work in Detroit?
(a) The accounting firms.
(b) The shipyards.
(c) The car factories.
(d) The diners.

3. Where was the picture of Davis's mother and stepfather that was labeled April 1965 taken?
(a) The Phelps Lounge.
(b) The Marshall Winter Ballroom.
(c) The Rainbow Room.
(d) The Fountainbleau.

4. What did Davis's mother call the slips of paper she wrote her clients' bets on?
(a) Receipts.
(b) Tickets.
(c) Tonies.
(d) Nibs.

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

6. What was Michigan's Idlewild resort unofficially called?
(a) The Luxe.
(b) Black Eden.
(c) The Heights.
(d) Resortville.

7. What did Davis's mother tell a woman in Florida who asked her where she got such a beautiful tan?
(a) It was none of her business.
(b) From a spray bottle.
(c) She was born with it.
(d) In the tanning salon.

8. Who was known as Madame Queen in the 1930s in Detroit?
(a) Janet Leigh.
(b) Stephanie St. Clair.
(c) Marian Anderson.
(d) Billie Holiday.

9. Where did Davis's mother stay on her trip to Florida in Chapter 4?
(a) The Goldfinger.
(b) The Fountainbleau Hotel.
(c) The Highwire.
(d) The Intercontinental.

10. Which newspaper expressed disdain for Numbers players as early as 1903?
(a) The Detroit Free Press.
(b) The Wide Angle.
(c) The Michigan News.
(d) The Detroit Morning Caller.

11. How did Davis's mother celebrate her fortieth birthday?
(a) In Las Vegas with her family.
(b) By buying herself a new car.
(c) With a singer and a karaoke machine.
(d) With a surprise party that was likely not a real surprise.

12. What did Davis's mother never seem to do at all in her life?
(a) Wear makeup.
(b) Spend money.
(c) Raise her voice.
(d) Smoke or drink.

13. Which sibling did Davis move to her mother and stepfather's new house with?
(a) Rita.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Diane.

14. Where did Davis eventually buy the long-time family home?
(a) Ellington Way.
(b) Conant Gardens.
(c) The Heights.
(d) Broadstreet.

15. When was Davis's mother's best decade as a Numbers runner?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of scarves did Davis's mother routinely wear?

2. What was an illegal after-hours place selling alcohol referred to as in Detroit in the 1960s?

3. What is the address listed on Davis's birth certificate?

4. How old was Davis's stepfather when he married her mother?

5. In what year did Davis's mother die?

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