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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three: Freedom Fight to Eight: A Stone's Throw.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How far was the beach from John's home?
(a) 1 miles.
(b) 4 miles.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 3 miles.

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

4. What was the name of the Chicago neighborhood where the Urban League Offices were located in 1919?
(a) Albany Park.
(b) Black Belt.
(c) Irving Park.
(d) River North.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Providence Hospital and nursing school for black women open?

2. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?

3. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," how many years after the Civil War ended were the first blacks hired in Union Stock Yard?

4. Who was the policeman working the 29th Street beach when John and his friends had rocks thrown at them?

5. How many people lived in Chicago in 1837?

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