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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 single color did Davis's mother redecorate the living room in the house at Seven Mile in?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Pink.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

3. What was the first Broadway musical Davis ever sees?
(a) The Producers.
(b) Sweet Charity.
(c) Oliver.
(d) The Wiz.

4. What did Davis tell her graduate school classmates is her favorite book?
(a) Marshall Does the Numbers.
(b) Peaches Writes Numbers.
(c) Daddy Was a Number Runner.
(d) Mama Ran the Numbers.

5. What number did Detroiters habitually play throughout the 1930s?
(a) The Motown Records number.
(b) Boxer Joe Louis's weight.
(c) 911.
(d) 311.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were specific formulas for supposedly finding lucky numbers called?

2. What movie did Davis's mother refuse to let her see, which Davis wrote about in her diary?

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

4. How much money did Davis's mother win herself in playing the new Michigan state lottery?

5. What choice did Davis's mother give her for her sixteenth birthday?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did dreams carry such weight in the Davis household?

3. How did Fannie feel about the connection some people made between Numbers and God?

4. What are "fancy" numbers?

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

6. How did Bridgett feel about her stepfather?

7. What does Bridgett regret about the way her father's death played out?

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

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

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

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