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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. During the Great War, how many aircraft engines needed to be produced in two years?
(a) 16,700.
(b) Nearly 18,000.
(c) 11,500.
(d) About 17,000.

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

3. In 1870, how many blacks called Chicago home?
(a) About 2,900.
(b) 5,293.
(c) 3,487.
(d) Nearly 3,700.

4. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?
(a) 82.
(b) 92.
(c) 63.
(d) 71.

5. How old was John Harris in 1919 when he went swimming with his friends?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1915, what destroyed cotton crops?

2. In what month did a race riot begin in 1919?

3. What was the southernmost city that the Illinois Central Railroad traveled to?

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

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

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