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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nine: A Higher Call to Fourteen: Respectability and Respect.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1881.

2. On July 27, 1919, how much higher was the temperature than usual?
(a) 13 degrees.
(b) 14 degrees.
(c) 10 degrees.
(d) 17 degrees.

3. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1852.

4. When did Langston Hughes arrive in Chicago?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

5. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1910, what percent of blacks were living in the South?

2. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?

3. How much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

4. Which of the boys was the first to get hit by rock in One: "The Beach"?

5. When did most of the growth of the black population in the Black Belt occur?

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