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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Davis's mother do for her for her tenth birthday?
(a) Buy her a big playhouse.
(b) Buy her whatever new dress she wants.
(c) Make her an elaborate cake.
(d) Throw an elaborate party.

2. Which friend of Davis's mother's ran a check-cashing business?
(a) Miss Lucille.
(b) Rita.
(c) Lula.
(d) Miss Beatrice.

3. Who did Davis's brother Anthony propose to on Christmas Day in Chapter 6?
(a) Florence.
(b) Jennie.
(c) Renita.
(d) Lula.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Davis's mother give modest diamond rings to?

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

3. Who was the only other woman besides Fannie Davis who was known in Detroit to be a Numbers runner?

4. What did Davis's mother do for extra income for a time in Chapter 9?

5. What number did Detroiters habitually play throughout the 1930s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and why did Fannie go to get Anthony in Chapter 6 with a gun in her purse?

2. Why does Bridgett think her father did not attend her sixteenth birthday party?

3. What comment did Bridgett's English professor at Spelman make that Bridgett found crass and clueless?

4. What did Fannie do when Bridgett made a special box for all her Numbers papers and odds and ends?

5. What are "fancy" numbers?

6. What tradition did Fannie often have involving candles?

7. As she grew, why did Bridgett choose to largely ignore the family business where some of her other siblings helped with it?

8. How did the legal Michigan lottery affect Fannie's Numbers business when the lottery first started up?

9. Why did Fannie have a fight with Renita's brother?

10. What number did Detroiters habitually play back in the 1930s?

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