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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which singer did Davis's mother take her to see in Detroit when she was 13 years old?
(a) Bille Holiday.
(b) Ella Fitzgerald.
(c) Josephine Baker.
(d) Diana Ross.

2. What is Davis touched to find that her mother meant to do for her in Chapter 6?
(a) Include her in the business.
(b) Start a wedding fund for her.
(c) Start a college fund for her.
(d) Buy her a new journal.

3. How much did Davis's mother invest in her musical production in Chapter 9?
(a) $25,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $5,000.

4. Which of the following books did Davis's mother often use for consultation?
(a) The Michelson Dreambook.
(b) The Robinson Family Dreambook.
(c) The Red Devil Combination DreamBook Almanac.
(d) The Alger Dreambook.

5. Which two street gangs did Davis remember in Detroit in the 1980s?
(a) Crips and Bloods.
(b) Crips and the Errol Flynns.
(c) Errol Flynns and the BKs.
(d) BKs and the Bloods.

6. Who did Davis get in a fight with in grade school?
(a) Jonathan Strong.
(b) Peter Golightly.
(c) Marshall Winters.
(d) Harland Clarke.

7. Which of the following was an advantage Davis's mother could offer her Numbers clients over the state lottery?
(a) Her tickets were much less expensive than the lottery tickets.
(b) She paid her hits off tax-free in cash by noon the following day, and the state lottery taxed winnings and made people wait for their money.
(c) She gave her customers candy with their winnings.
(d) She could offer a percentage over what their winnings were.

8. What did Davis do as a child to try to help her mother's business in Chapter 5?
(a) Offered to take phone calls for her.
(b) Offered to skip school in order to help her.
(c) Offered to pick up payments for her.
(d) Made a box for her to keep all her Numbers materials in.

9. Who was one of Davis's favorite musical groups when she was 10?
(a) The Jackson 5.
(b) The Eagles.
(c) The Rolling Stones.
(d) The Beatles.

10. What high school did Davis attend?
(a) Cass Technical High School.
(b) Broadstreet High School.
(c) Wingate High school.
(d) Eight Mile High School.

11. Which writer was known as America's sleeping clairvoyant?
(a) Rola Ronana.
(b) Jemina Wolston.
(c) Roger Stebbins.
(d) Edgar Cayce.

12. Where did Davis work at a job as a teenager?
(a) Wendy's.
(b) Southfield Clinic.
(c) Tastee Freeze Ice Cream.
(d) Northland Mall.

13. What did William T. Cahill, the governor of New Jersey in 1972, say about the legal lottery?
(a) Even if you lose, your money is going to a good purpose.
(b) It helps older Americans.
(c) It is better to play the lottery than to throw coins in a fountain.
(d) It is not the same as gambling at all.

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

15. Why did Davis's mother sometimes stick her Numbers books in the freezer?
(a) To cool them off, or rid them of their luck.
(b) To keep them safe from thieves.
(c) To remember where she put them.
(d) To hide them from police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Davis obtain her birth control as a teenager?

2. What was the Michigan Lottery's new slogan in the end of the 1970s?

3. When did the first dream book appear?

4. Which company did Davis's mother invest in in the early 1980s?

5. Who did Davis go to the Washington Monument with while in high school?

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