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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 did Langston Hughes arrive in Chicago?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1918.

2. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Lewis Isbel.
(b) Andrew Miller.
(c) Wyatt Jones.
(d) Davy Philipps.

3. How much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $8 a week.
(b) $3 per day.
(c) $2 per day.
(d) $5 a week.

4. In Ten: "Northern Fever," what should Mrs. Hunter have gotten for her house?
(a) $1,400.
(b) $1,300.
(c) $1,200.
(d) $1,000.

5. How many copies of the Defender did Robert Horton have delivered to his barbershop in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 45.
(b) 30-40.
(c) 40-50.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres was the Union Stockyards in Six: "Waste Matters"?

2. What is the name of the lake near Chicago?

3. What was the name of the man who killed Eugene Williams?

4. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?

5. When did the war end?

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