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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of wallet did Davis's mother carry, according to Chapter 7?

2. What did some of Davis's cousins call Davis's mother affectionately?

3. Who did Davis's brother Anthony propose to on Christmas Day in Chapter 6?

4. What did William T. Cahill, the governor of New Jersey in 1972, say about the legal lottery?

5. What health problem did Davis's mother suffer from in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are "fancy" numbers?

2. What did Bridgett's family members reassure her of after her father's death?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Which college did Bridgett attend and how did she pay for it?

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

10. How did Bridgett feel about her stepfather?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Fannie tell Bridgett that Bridgett was "born lucky," even though Bridgett was two months premature and quite sickly at birth? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How did Fannie's Numbers business, and others like it in the Black communities of Detroit, help to benefit those same communities in ways that the Michigan lottery did not, according to Bridgett? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why was it not possible for Fannie Davis to buy the house on Broadstreet herself, since she had the cash to do it? How did she actually have to buy the house, and why did she have to do it this way? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.

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