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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. In Ten: "The Northern Fever," how much did Mr. Henderson earn monthly working for the railroad?
(a) $150.
(b) $100.
(c) $125.
(d) $75.

2. In 1915, what destroyed cotton crops?
(a) Flooding.
(b) Hurricane.
(c) Drought.
(d) Boll weevil.

3. When did Michael Donnelly end the strike he called in Eight: "A Stone's Throw"?
(a) September 23, 1904.
(b) October 3, 1904.
(c) October 11, 1904.
(d) September 8, 1904.

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

5. In 1916, how much canned beef did American meat packers export?
(a) 80 million tons.
(b) 70 million tons.
(c) 50 million tons.
(d) 45 millions tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?

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

3. In what direction were John and his friends from the fight on the 29th Street beach?

4. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?

5. When was John Jones elected to political office?

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