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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. By what date in Seven: "Parallel Universes," did one of every three babies in Packingtown die before the age of two?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1908.

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

3. In Seven: "Parallel Universes," how many saloons were on Whiskey Row?
(a) 510.
(b) About 490.
(c) 380.
(d) More than 500.

4. When did the Stockyards Labor Council make plans to have black laborers join the meat packing workers' union?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1918.

5. In Six: "Waste Matters," what was John T. Joyce's job?
(a) Day laborer.
(b) Street sweeper.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Cattle butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," what Polish speaker was tasked with energizing eastern Europeans to join the union?

2. How were the black bathers chased away?

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

4. In 1837, how many blacks lived in Chicago?

5. In 1917, how many were on the Chicago Real Estate Board committee to keep blacks out of certain neighborhoods?

(see the answer key)

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