A Few Red Drops Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifteen: Tension Rising to Seventeen: Race Riot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," how many years after the Civil War ended were the first blacks hired in Union Stock Yard?
(a) 11.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 16.

2. How much did Mrs.Hunter sell her house for in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $700.
(b) $500.
(c) $800.
(d) $650.

3. When did Langston Hughes arrive in Chicago?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1917.

4. On July 27, 1919, how much higher was the temperature than usual?
(a) 17 degrees.
(b) 14 degrees.
(c) 13 degrees.
(d) 10 degrees.

5. What was the number of the union branch established in the Black Belt in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?
(a) Local 411.
(b) Local 651.
(c) Local 294.
(d) Local 317.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?

2. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?

3. In 1919, what nieghborhood was bordered by Pershing to the north, Wentworth to the east, and Halstead to the west?

4. In 1919, when did a group of boys scuffle in Washington Park?

5. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did the police confiscate the Defender?

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