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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifteen: Tension Rising to Seventeen: Race Riot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

2. In 1917, what was the number of the Polish and Lithuanian union Local?
(a) 205.
(b) 411.
(c) 693.
(d) 554.

3. Who did President Wilson appoint to arbitrate any disputes between packers and the union?
(a) Judge Samuel Alschuler.
(b) Judge Thomas Brighton.
(c) Judge David Michaels.
(d) Judge William Poluski.

4. When was a novel published about Packingtown's crumbling, disease prone community?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1897.

5. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1849.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bombs exploded in January 1919 on the doorsteps of real estate offices?

2. In what newspaper were the photographs published of people enjoying the beach in One: The Beach?

3. In Ten: "Northern Fever," what should Mrs. Hunter have gotten for her house?

4. During the Great War, how many aircraft engines needed to be produced in two years?

5. Whose home was bombed on May 16, 1919?

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