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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. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

2. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how much time were Southern black children allowed to attend school?
(a) A few months.
(b) A couple months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 3 months.

3. What hours did Kaztauskis work his first day at the stockyards?
(a) 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
(b) 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
(c) 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(d) 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

4. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Andrew Miller.
(b) Lewis Isbel.
(c) Davy Philipps.
(d) Wyatt Jones.

5. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?
(a) Lithuanian.
(b) Polish.
(c) Irish.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Judge Alschuler increase wages in the packing industry for a second time?

2. What was the weather like on the day that John Turner Harris's life changed?

3. Who was the United States president when America declared war on Germany?

4. When did the Chicago Defender recommend that Southern blacks come North for employment?

5. Where was Eugene Williams born?

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