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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. Between what streets was the beach where John and his friends went?
(a) 14th and 16th.
(b) 21st and 23rd.
(c) 26th and 29th.
(d) 30th and 31st.

2. In what direction were John and his friends from the fight on the 29th Street beach?
(a) Southeast.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

3. How many acres was the Union Stockyards in Six: "Waste Matters"?
(a) 400.
(b) 350.
(c) About 290.
(d) Over 300.

4. What could be smelled in John's family home?
(a) Burnt street meat and smoke.
(b) Fishy garbage.
(c) Garbage baking on the sidewalk.
(d) Animal blood.

5. Who was the policeman working the 29th Street beach when John and his friends had rocks thrown at them?
(a) Officer Peter O'Halloran.
(b) Officer William Morrison.
(c) Officer Mick O'Malley.
(d) Officer Daniel Callahan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was John Harris in 1919 when he went swimming with his friends?

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the lake near Chicago?

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