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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. Where was Eugene Williams born?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carollina.
(d) Georgia.

2. Whose home was bombed on May 16, 1919?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Peterson.
(c) Williams.
(d) Harrison.

3. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?
(a) August.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) October.

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

5. Where did Gustavius Franklin Swift start his company?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Boston.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) Denver.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?

3. Where did John Jones's mother send him to learn a trade?

4. How tall was the Chicago Illinois Central station vaulted ceiling in the waiting room?

5. In 1837, how many blacks lived in Chicago?

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