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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. At the beginning of Part One, who wrote the lines of the poem quoted?
(a) Langsten Hughes.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(d) Paul Laurence Dunbar.

2. In what newspaper were the photographs published of people enjoying the beach in One: The Beach?
(a) Chicago Tribune.
(b) Chicago Examiner.
(c) Chicago Eagle.
(d) Chicago Sun-Times.

3. Where did Gustavius Franklin Swift start his company?
(a) Boston.
(b) Denver.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) Chicago.

4. In Ten: "Northern Fever," what should Mrs. Hunter have gotten for her house?
(a) $1,400.
(b) $1,300.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $1,200.

5. How did John and his friends get partway to the beach?
(a) Took a bus.
(b) Hitched a ride with a neighbor.
(c) Hopped a produce truck.
(d) Rode their bikes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Anatanas Kaztauskis come to Chicago from Lithuania?

2. What was the name of the football, track, and baseball star who traveled from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eight Infantry Regiment?

3. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?

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

5. When was Ferdinand Barnett born?

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