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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. When was Davis's mother's best decade as a Numbers runner?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1960s.
2. What did Davis's mother tell a woman in Florida who asked her where she got such a beautiful tan?
(a) It was none of her business.
(b) She was born with it.
(c) From a spray bottle.
(d) In the tanning salon.
3. What is Davis's mother's first name?
(a) Fannie.
(b) Rita.
(c) Florence.
(d) Lula.
4. What did Davis's mother wear to her second wedding?
(a) A white wedding dress with a long train.
(b) A red wedding dress.
(c) A blue suit.
(d) An off-white two-piece suit.
5. In what year did Davis's mother die?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1989.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2005.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Davis's mother finally have her own name placed on the land contract for her home?
2. Who was known as Madame Queen in the 1930s in Detroit?
3. What did Davis's mother habitually wear on her ring finger?
4. When did Davis's mother stop working for someone else and start doing Numbers for herself?
5. What did W.E.B. Dubois call educated and privileged Black people?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Rita write letters to God?
2. How did Bridgett feel about her father John T. as a young child?
3. How does Bridgett remember her mother Fannie treating herself during Bridgett's childhood?
4. How did Fannie react when Bridgett told her about what her teacher was interrogating her over in the Prologue?
5. How did Fannie go about buying the house on Broadstreet?
6. What was the danger every time Fannie had to give a huge payout to someone who had had a hit?
7. What did Fannie Davis have to say in response to the popular advice to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps?
8. When and why did John T., Bridett's father, move out of the family home?
9. What were some of the superstitious things Fannie did to help keep her luck up in her business?
10. What sparked the Detroit riots in 1967?
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