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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 was the circulation of the Chicago Defender in 1919?
(a) 90,000.
(b) 33,000.
(c) 44,000.
(d) 130,000.

2. When did a Mrs. Hunter tell her son to move North for better wages in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

3. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?
(a) Polish.
(b) Irish.
(c) Lithuanian.
(d) German.

4. What was the southernmost city that the Illinois Central Railroad traveled to?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Birmingham.

5. What was the name of the union newspaper in 1919?
(a) Solidarity and Freedom.
(b) Labor and Workers.
(c) New Majority.
(d) Solidarity Press.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the union organize the people of Packingtown to tell their story to the judge appointed by President Wilson?

2. When did Chicago's all-black Eight Infantry Regiment prepare to leave for the war?

3. How many copies of the Defender did Robert Horton have delivered to his barbershop in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

4. When did Ferdinand Barnett marry Ida Wells?

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

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