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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. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?
(a) 90%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 65%.

2. When did Gustavus Swift die?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1915.

3. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1845.

4. What police department in Ten: "Northern Fever" blocked all the train depots to stop blacks from purchasing tickets?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Hattiesburg.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Birmingham.

5. In what month did a race riot begin in 1919?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Chicago harbor designated by the U.S. Congress as an official port of entry?

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

3. What was the weather like on the day that John Turner Harris's life changed?

4. What was the circulation of the Chicago Defender in 1919?

5. In 1916, how much canned beef did American meat packers export?

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