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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. In 1919, what percent of the vote did Thompson gain to be reelected as mayor of Chicago?
(a) 73.
(b) 64.
(c) 38.
(d) 59.

2. How old was Ferdinand Barnett when he opened his own law office?
(a) 28.
(b) 21.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

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

4. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

5. How many mounted police were posted in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings in 1919?
(a) 300.
(b) 415.
(c) 250.
(d) 530.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John Jones born?

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

3. When did Swift move to Chicago?

4. How much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

5. Whose home was bombed on May 16, 1919?

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