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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) 33,000.
(b) 44,000.
(c) 90,000.
(d) 130,000.

2. In 1919, what was the membership of Olivet Baptist?
(a) 8,430.
(b) 6,033.
(c) 4,271.
(d) 5,934.

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

4. During the Great War, how many aircraft engines needed to be produced in two years?
(a) 16,700.
(b) 11,500.
(c) Nearly 18,000.
(d) About 17,000.

5. When did the union organize the people of Packingtown to tell their story to the judge appointed by President Wilson?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1917, how many homes were available for 664 applicants for housing?

2. In 1919, what did the black workforce fall from and to from January to May?

3. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?

4. How old was Eugene Williams when he died?

5. In 1915, what destroyed cotton crops?

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