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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 did Jewell's name play for, according to Aunt Florence?

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

3. Where did Davis work at a job as a teenager?

4. When did the singer Josephine Baker die?

5. What did Davis tell her graduate school classmates is her favorite book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Pearl Massey's friendship so vital to Fannie?

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

4. How did Bridgett feel about her stepfather?

5. Why did Bridgett never get to deliver her graduation pictures to her father?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why do you think Bridgett refers to herself as "spoiled" late in the book? Do you agree with her assessment of herself? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does Fannie help encourage others in her life and lift them up so they have hopes of achieving their own dreams and goals throughout her life? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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