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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. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Andrew Miller.
(b) Lewis Isbel.
(c) Wyatt Jones.
(d) Davy Philipps.

2. How far away was a white man throwing rocks at John and his friends on the raft?
(a) 90 feet.
(b) 100 feet.
(c) 75 feet.
(d) 70 feet.

3. In 1919, what day of the week did John Harris and his friends go to the beach?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Tuesday.

4. What street car ran from north to south in Chicago in 1919?
(a) Pershing.
(b) 43rd Street.
(c) State Street.
(d) 47th Street.

5. In Three: "Freedom," what trade did John Jones learn?
(a) Tailor.
(b) Farrier.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Surveyor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many friends did John meet with in One: "The Beach"?

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

3. What were the dimensions of the raft that John and his friends built?

4. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?

5. When did Michael Donnelly end the strike he called in Eight: "A Stone's Throw"?

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