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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. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?

2. What was the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment?

3. What is the name of the lake near Chicago?

4. When did Gustavus Swift die?

5. When did Swift move to Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the unspoken rule about beaches in Chicago?

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

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

5. In 1919, where could people go outside and what could to they do?

6. Who was Ida B. Wells?

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

8. What were the only ways that Chicagoans could keep cool in the type of heat wave that was occurring in July of 1919?

9. In One: "The Beach," what was the weather and atmosphere like in John Harris's neighborhood?

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

When many Blacks fought in the Great War, jobs opened in Chicago, and many Southern whites migrated to Chicago. What challenges did Southern blacks have to overcome to even get to Chicago? What did they have to learn and what challenges did they have to overcome once they arrived in Chicago?

Essay Topic 2

There was racial segregation in Chicago in 1919. How was segregation different in Chicago than in the South? What invisible lines of segregation were there in Chicago? In what way was Chicago as segregated as the South only manifested in different ways?

Essay Topic 3

Blacks often had the worse jobs at the lowest pay. How were black exploited on the job? What was the consequence of the economic inequality that blacks faced?

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