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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. Who did President Wilson appoint to arbitrate any disputes between packers and the union?
(a) Judge William Poluski.
(b) Judge David Michaels.
(c) Judge Samuel Alschuler.
(d) Judge Thomas Brighton.

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

3. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did Robert Horton have his barbershop?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Movile.
(c) Meridian.
(d) Hattiesburg.

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

5. In Ten: "Northern Fever," what should Mrs. Hunter have gotten for her house?
(a) $1,400.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $1,300.
(d) $1,200.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much were teachers paid monthly in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

2. What was the circulation of the Chicago Defender in 1919?

3. By what date in Seven: "Parallel Universes," did one of every three babies in Packingtown die before the age of two?

4. What was the number of the Chicago Irish Regiment in World War I?

5. When was the black-owned Jesse Binga Bank opened?

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