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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. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?
(a) Workers would get a 50 cent an hour increase.
(b) Wages would be increased, but there would be no overtime pay.
(c) Increased wages and overtime for anytime worked beyond eight hours in a day.
(d) Wages would be frozen.

2. In July of 1919, how many people did the Chicago Tribune say could go to the beaches?
(a) 180,000.
(b) 145,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 275,000.

3. 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) 2.
(d) 6.

4. What was the southernmost city that the Illinois Central Railroad traveled to?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Mobile.
(d) Biloxi.

5. In Three: "Freedom," what trade did John Jones learn?
(a) Surveyor.
(b) Tailor.
(c) Farrier.
(d) Blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1919, how many candidates were trying to unseat Big Bill for mayor?

2. What was the number of the union branch established in the Black Belt in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?

3. In One: "The Beach," what time did John met up with his friends?

4. How many blacks were employed at the Yard in 1918?

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

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