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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. How many people lived in Chicago in 1837?

2. How many friends did John meet with in One: "The Beach"?

3. How far were the city stockyards from John's home?

4. How many acres was the Union Stockyards in Six: "Waste Matters"?

5. When did John Jones and other Chicagoans create a plan of defense against slave catchers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

2. Why did the lives of blacks get more difficult in the 1850s, and what was something that they did about it?

3. Who was Ida B. Wells?

4. Why were tension rising at the 29th Street beach on July 27, 1919?

5. What happened when the raft that John and his friends were using drifted near the 29th Street beach?

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

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

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

9. How did Gustavus Swift change the meat packing industry?

10. In the Prologue, what rage had been building in Chicago and how had it started?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ida Wells-Barnett believed that it was necessary to be as “alert as the watchman on the wall” (34). Under what circumstances did Barnett make that comment? What did she mean by that comment? What is revealed about the challenges of equality for blacks by her statement?

Essay Topic 2

The violence ended a week after the incident on the beach. What did Chicago do to address the issues raised by the riot? How was justice meted out after the riot, and was justice fair to all--black and white?

Essay Topic 3

Rumors were rampant before, during, and after the riot. What misinformation was spread by the media? What rumors circulated before during and after the riot? How did misinformation and rumors help cause the riot?

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