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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. When did Anatanas Kaztauskis come to Chicago from Lithuania?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1901.

2. When did Providence Hospital and nursing school for black women open?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1890.

3. When did Illinois strike down its Black Laws?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1865.

4. What was the name of the area west of the Union Stock Yards and north of a park in 1919?
(a) Tavern Row.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Bridgeport.
(d) Whiskey Row.

5. When was John Jones elected to political office?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1919, what was the name of the Clubhouse that was south of the Back of the Yards?

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

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

4. When was Ferdinand Barnett born?

5. By what date in Seven: "Parallel Universes," did one of every three babies in Packingtown die before the age of two?

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