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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Davis move with her mother after her mother remarried?
(a) West Seven Mile Road.
(b) East Eight Mile Road.
(c) North Five Mile Road.
(d) South Three Mile Road.

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

3. Which sister of Davis's wrote notes to God?
(a) Lula.
(b) Florence.
(c) Dianne.
(d) Rita.

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

5. When did the previous owner of Davis's mother buy the house that became their family home?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1948.

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

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

8. Who is Florence's husband?
(a) Randy.
(b) James.
(c) Gene.
(d) Michael.

9. Which president was assassinated when Davis was a young child?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

11. Who was Detroit's police commissioner during the time of the Gotham raid?
(a) John Maynard.
(b) George Ramsey.
(c) George Edwards.
(d) Allen White.

12. What did Davis's teacher ask her about in Part I that offended Fannie?
(a) The reason Bridgett had so many shoes.
(b) The reason Bridgett lived in a house like Broadstreet.
(c) The reason Bridgett needed to carry a purse.
(d) The reason Bridgett's father did not work.

13. What kinds of scarves did Davis's mother routinely wear?
(a) Vanderbilt.
(b) Gucci.
(c) Prada.
(d) Hermes.

14. Which famous singer lived in the same neighborhood as Davis's family?
(a) Buddy Holly.
(b) Billie Holiday.
(c) Diana Ross.
(d) James Brown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interest rate did the seller charge Davis's mother to buy the family home?

2. What did Davis's mother never seem to do at all in her life?

3. What was Michigan's Idlewild resort unofficially called?

4. Which cousin did Davis spend a lot of time with growing up who was her Aunt Florence's daughter?

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

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