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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 immigrants and blacks leave their Chicago homes to fight in the Great War?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

2. Who was the policeman working the 29th Street beach when John and his friends had rocks thrown at them?
(a) Officer Daniel Callahan.
(b) Officer William Morrison.
(c) Officer Peter O'Halloran.
(d) Officer Mick O'Malley.

3. Where did Gustavius Franklin Swift start his company?
(a) Cape Cod.
(b) Denver.
(c) Boston.
(d) Chicago.

4. What was the weather like on the day that John Turner Harris's life changed?
(a) Extremely hot.
(b) Cool and windy.
(c) Partly sunny.
(d) Thunderstorms.

5. In One: "The Beach," what beach did blacks usually frequent?
(a) 28th Sttreet.
(b) 26th Street.
(c) 27th Street.
(d) 29th Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the union newspaper in 1919?

2. In 1917, what was the number of the Polish and Lithuanian union Local?

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?

4. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?

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

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