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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. What groups supported a Labor Party candidate for mayor in 1919?
(a) Lithuanians and Germans.
(b) Austrians and Czechs.
(c) Irish and Poles.
(d) Poles and Lithuanians.

2. Where was John Jones born?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Alabama.

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

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

5. By what date in Seven: "Parallel Universes," did one of every three babies in Packingtown die before the age of two?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1908.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1919, when did a group of boys scuffle in Washington Park?

3. How much did Mrs.Hunter sell her house for in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

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

5. On June 30, where were two brothers chased from?

(see the answer key)

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