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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eighteen: Ratcheting up to Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?
(a) August.
(b) November.
(c) October.
(d) September.

2. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when did someone explode a bomb in a black family's home?
(a) July 17.
(b) July 9.
(c) July 3.
(d) July 1.

3. In Eighteen: "Ratcheting Up," when on Tuesday was the mob stopped?
(a) 10 a.m.
(b) 11 a.m.
(c) Noon.
(d) 9 a.m.

4. What was the name of the union newspaper in 1919?
(a) Solidarity and Freedom.
(b) New Majority.
(c) Solidarity Press.
(d) Labor and Workers.

5. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?
(a) Wages would be frozen.
(b) Workers would get a 50 cent an hour increase.
(c) Wages would be increased, but there would be no overtime pay.
(d) Increased wages and overtime for anytime worked beyond eight hours in a day.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was union organizer John Kikulski shot and killed in front of his home?

2. How many home burned in the Lithuanian section of Packingtown in Twenty: "Moment of Truth"?

3. How much of the police force was stationed in the Black Belt at the end of Eighteen: "Ratcheting Up"?

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

5. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?

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