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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. Where was Eugene Williams born?

2. How old was Eugene Williams when he died?

3. What could be smelled in John's family home?

4. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?

5. What was the name of the Chicago neighborhood where the Urban League Offices were located in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the work of women like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

2. When was the first strike called at the stockyards and how successful was it?

3. Where did John and his friends have a special place for their own by the water?

4. Who was John Jones, and why did he come to Chicago in the 1840s?

5. What was the job of a cattle butcher in Six: "Waste Matters"?

6. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

7. Why did John and his friends run to the beach after hitching a ride?

8. What was Packingtown like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

9. What type of work did Irishmen perform when the Chicago canal was built?

10. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both the title of the book and Carl Sandburg’s poem reference “red drops of blood.” What do the red drops of blood symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Blacks gained the right to vote through the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. How did blacks use their power to vote? How did the blacks vote? What did the way that blacks voted convey about the power of the vote?

Essay Topic 3

Gustavus Swift entered the butchering process as an apprentice in 1855. He went on to become one of the major meat packers at Chicago's Union Stock Yard. What goals did Swift have? What problems did he have to solve to meet his goals? How did he have to use ingenuity to solve his problems?

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