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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. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1845.

2. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how many children did the Hunters take with them when they moved to Chicago?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

3. When did Ferdinand Barnett marry Ida Wells?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1895.

4. In Sixteen: "Last Straws, how many Poles grabbed a black man and told him to join the union or else?
(a) 7 to 10.
(b) 4 to 5.
(c) 6 to 8.
(d) 8 to 11.

5. In 1919, what did the black workforce fall from and to from January to May?
(a) 80,000 to 60,000.
(b) 65,000 to 50,000.
(c) 70,000 to 45,000.
(d) 50,000 to 30,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Illinois strike down its Black Laws?

2. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?

3. How many mounted police were posted in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings in 1919?

4. In Seven: "Parallel Universes," how many saloons were on Whiskey Row?

5. What was the number of the union branch established in the Black Belt in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?

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