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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. Which movie based on Billie Holiday's life did Davis love in Chapter 6?
(a) Lady Sings the Blues.
(b) Soul Love.
(c) Love Supreme.
(d) Angel of Harlem.

2. What health problem did Davis's mother suffer from in Chapter 6?
(a) Glaucoma.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Muscle weakness.
(d) Blood clots.

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

4. What movie did Davis's mother refuse to let her see, which Davis wrote about in her diary?
(a) Pet Cemetery.
(b) The Red Shoes.
(c) The Exorcist.
(d) The Shining.

5. What does scholar Felicia George say the word luck originated as?
(a) A gambling term.
(b) A curse.
(c) A blessing.
(d) A prayer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Davis's school principal in Chapter 6?

3. What high school did Davis attend?

4. Which writer wrote a story in the Detroit News trying to explain the Numbers to laypeople?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Fannie manage to avoid all the raids on Numbers runners?

2. Why is Bridgett so impressed with how her principal, Percy Porter, handled the situation between her and Peter Golightly?

3. What are "fancy" numbers?

4. What information did Bridgett let slip one day that could have caused trouble for Fannie?

5. What impressed Bridgett about the way Fannie conducted herself when someone treated her unfairly because of her race?

6. Why did Bridgett get in a fight with Peter Golightly?

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

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

9. What did Fannie give to both Rita and Bridgett when they were young that helped them as they grew up?

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

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